The Riggin o Fife is an upland area of

Fife Fife ( , ; ; ) is a council areas of Scotland, council area and lieutenancy areas of Scotland, lieutenancy area in Scotland. A peninsula, it is bordered by the Firth of Tay to the north, the North Sea to the east, the Firth of Forth to the s ...

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which runs eastward from the Markinch Gap and the

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to form the elevated hinterland to the coastal villages of the

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. At 290 m, Largo Law is the highest hill, with other high points including Clatto Hill (248 m), Drumcarrow Craig (217 m), Flagstaff Hill (207 m), Kellie Law (182 m) and Hill of Tarvit (211 m). The area is rural, populated by farms and hamlets, with a few small villages, such as

Largoward Largoward is a village in East Fife, Scotland, lying on the road from Leven, Fife, Leven to St Andrews in the Riggin o Fife, 4½ miles north-east of Lower Largo and 6½ miles south-west of St Andrews.Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland, by Francis Gro ...

and

Peat Inn Peat Inn is a hamlet in Fife, Scotland, around southeast of Cupar on the B940 and southwest of St Andrews St Andrews (; ; , pronounced ʰʲɪʎˈrˠiː.ɪɲ is a town on the east coast of Fife in Scotland, southeast of Dundee and nort ...

. ''Riggin'' denotes a high ridge, the roof, the backbone, the exposed parts or the watershed.

William Wilkie William Wilkie (5 October 1721 – 10 October 1772) was a Scottish Church of Scotland minister and Professor of Natural Philosophy. Primarily remembered as a poet nicknamed Potato Willie, known more respectfully as the "Scottish Homer", he contr ...

, agriculturalist and professor of natural philosophy at the

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, conducted successful experiments in moorland farming at his farm at

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. From 1898 to 1964, the Riggin was served by the East Fife Central Railway mineral and goods line. The area lends its name to a

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