Crail
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Image:Crail harbour.jpg The Royal Burgh of Crail is a burgh in Fife, Scotland and part of the East Neuk.
Built around a harbour, it has a museum and a pottery. The most notable building in the town is its twelfth century church.
The Crail golf society is the seventh oldest in the world. Their oldest course, Balcomie, is said to have been the first to use circular golf holes. Previously, it is said, golf holes were square. This is most likely a misunderstanding. The course was the first to use iron liners in their holes. At some point, the reference to the first "iron rings" has been taken as a reference to the first round holes.
On the beach beside the harbour, there are fossilised trees, dating back to the carboniferous geological period.
The Crail Raceway, on an abandoned airfield half a mile north of town, hosts events every second Sunday of the month. The Raceway lets amateur drivers compete with their own adapted vehicles