Tayport
Tayport, also referred to as Ferry-Port on Craig, is a community and burgh, as well as parish, in the region of Fife, Scotland, functioning as a commuter town for Dundee. The motto of the Burgh is Te oportet alte ferri ("It is incumbent on you to lug on your own high"), a word play here on Tayport at auld Tay Ferry. Tayport lies close to the north east suggestion of Fife. To the north it looks throughout the River Tay to Broughty Ferry and also Broughty Castle. To the eastern is the vast Tentsmuir Nature Reserve, an area of forested dunes determining some 3 km from east to west as well as 6 km from north to south and also bordered by vast sands that continue right round to the mouth of the River Eden. The civil parish of Ferry-Port on Craig has a population of 3,815 (in 2011).
