Fife KY16 9BE , 32 East Scores , Saint Andrews KY16 9BE , Saint Andrews KY16 , UK , Fife , United Kingdom ,
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The castle sits on a rocky promontory overlooking a small beach called Castle Sands and the adjoining North Sea. There has been a castle standing at the site since the times of Bishop Roger (1189-1202), son of the Earl of Leicester. It housed the burgh’s wealthy and powerful bishops while St Andrews served as the ecclesiastical centre of Scotland during the years before the Protestant Reformation. In their Latin charters, the Archbishops of St Andrews wrote of the castle as their Palace, signing, "apud Palatium nostrum
Cupar from the Sky
East Bridge, Fife KY15 4HB, Fife KY15, Cupar KY15, Cupar, Fife, UK, Scotland, United Kingdom