Tayport, likewise called Ferry-Port on Craig, is a community as well as burgh, as well as parish, in the county of Fife, Scotland, acting as a traveler town for Dundee. The slogan of the Burgh is Te oportet alte ferri ("It is incumbent on you to bring yourself high"), a pun on Tayport at auld Tay Ferry. Tayport lies close to the north east idea of Fife. To the north it looks across the River Tay to Broughty Ferry and Broughty Castle. To the east is the substantial Tentsmuir Nature Reserve, a location of forested dunes gauging some 3 kilometres from east to west as well as 6 kilometres from north to south and edged by vast sands that continue completely round to the mouth of the River Eden. The civil parish of Ferry-Port on Craig has a population of 3,815 (in 2011).