Windygates

Windygates is a small village and surrounding district in central Fife, Scotland.

It encompasses the villages hamlets and estates of Wellsgreen Farm, Little Lun Farm, Woodbank Farm, The Maw (a former farming community), Cameron, Isabella, Smithyhill, Cameron bridge, Bridgend, Durie Estate, Duniface Farm, Haughmill (a former weaving community), Drumcaldie, The Meetings (Confluence of Rivers Leven and Ore), Bankhead of Balcurvie, Fernhill, Fernbank (both former farms), Balcurvie Village (a former weaving community), Little Balcurvie, Hawthorn Bank, Kennowayburns and Windygates Village itself. Housing demands of the 20th century brought all of these, almost forgotten identities, together into a district now commonly known as Windygates.