Offering you the opportunity to become refreshed and recharged, the Beveridge Park Hotel is a perfect place for your relaxing leisure breakaway, golfing trip or corporate event; ideally situated for both business traveller and holiday maker. The hotel's location close to the Railway Station makes it ideal for anyone wishing to travel to Edinburgh or beyond.

There is plenty to see and do in the local area of fife, from outdoor activities such as golfing, fishing, clay pigeon shooting, archery, horse riding or to exploring the unspoilt and picturesque fishing villages along the east Neuk of Fife.

The hotel has 31 relaxed bedroom suites that are well decorated, offering you all the comfort you need to make your stay a pleasant one.

They are modern, spacious and comfortable, each with a bathroom, television, hair-dryer, trouser press, direct dial telephone and tea and coffee making facilities.

You can dine at the in-house restaurant and lounge bar, where you will enjoy a relaxed atmosphere and wide selection of drinks and dishes from around the world.

The hotel has excellent facilities for all your conference and banqueting requirements, with four function suites catering from small meetings to larger banquets.

Kirkcaldy is fortunate to possess a particularly fine collection of parks and open spaces, mostly donated by local industrial philanthropists. Beveridge Park, well worth a visit in its own right, was bequeathed to the town in 1890. It contains a fine boating pond (photograph on right), pets corner and extensive floral displays, as well as the more normal games pitches, bowling greens, putting green, tennis courts, etc. On the coast, between Pathhead and Dysart, is Ravenscraig Park, gifted to the burgh by Sir Michael Nairn in 1929. Equally worthy of a visit, this park features an interesting serpentine coastal wall and provides interesting and dramatic approaches to both Ravenscraig Castle and Dysart.

Also donated to the town were the Adam Smith and Beveridge Halls, originally completed in 1899. Since their conversion to the Adam Smith Centre in 1973 (see photograph on left), the building has been increasingly popular as a venue for theatrical and other community and cultural activities. It forms part of an attractive grouping of civic buildings around the War Memorial Gardens on the opposite side of Bennochy Road.

Basking in the benefits of modern attractions, Kirkcaldy and District is steeped in the past. One of Scotland's most ancient burghs, Kirkcaldy has a history stretching back to the 11th century. It was the birthplace of the economist Adam Smith in 1723 and, five years later, of the architect Robert Adam. The town grew rapidly around the busy harbour near the mouth of the East Burn in the 19th century with the development of textile, linoleum and coal industries. Kirkcaldy became an industrial centre then and was the first town to use the power loom, which revolutionised the weaving industry. In later years it became the world's linoleum capital!

Today, many of the vestiges of the area's industrial heritage have long since disappeared, replaced by bustling towns with extensive attractions to keep the whole family occupied. Kirkcaldy itself is the main shopping centre of the area, and is popular for its arts and entertainment at the Adam Smith Theatre and the Art Gallery and Museum.