Fife - Clatto Reservoir to Pitscottie

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🗓️ 30 January 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Clare is in the Kingdom of Fife today, hiking from Clatto Reservoir to Pitscottie. It’s a beautiful stretch of the Fife Pilgrim Way, a long-distance footpath that runs 65 miles from either Culross or North Queensferry (there’s a choice of starting places) and ends in St Andrews.

Joining her are three colleagues from the Fife Coast and Countryside Trust, who helped to develop the route, and an Elder from the church in the village of Ceres who would like to see 'champing' (that's camping in churches) established as a way of providing good accommodation for Pilgrims passing through Ceres on their way to St Andrews.

The Fife Pilgrim Way was officially opened in 2019 and connects west to east Fife via routes traditionally used by religious pilgrims. The route is divided into seven sections, ranging from 8 to 11 miles in length. You can find more information here: https://fifecoastandcountrysidetrust.co.uk/walks/fife-pilgrim-way/

Presenter: Clare Balding Producer: Karen Gregor

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0:38.5	BBC sounds music radio podcasts it's a bright fresh winter's day a thin layer of ice on the top of
0:51.0	the plateau reservoir the grass is all all around encased in frost,
0:56.9	so they look as if they've been dusted with icing sugar.
0:59.5	And it's just a wonderful morning.
1:01.0	I'm in the Kingdom of Fife.
1:02.4	So north of Edinburgh, south of Dundee,
1:05.8	walking a section of a new path called the Fife Pilgrim Way.
1:10.3	I say new, relatively new. It started in
1:12.4	2019 and I'm going to join a group who are closely involved in it but first of all I can see
1:20.4	a man wearing dark clothes and a green hat with a pair of binoculars.
1:30.3	The grass is crunching under my feet. Hello, morning.
1:32.3	Good morning.
1:33.3	Hi there, I'm Claire.
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