Wormit is a small town located on the banks of the Firth of Tay

Firth of Tay

The Firth of Tay is a firth in Scotland between the council areas of Fife, Perth and Kinross, the City of Dundee and Angus, into which Scotland's largest river in terms of flow, the River Tay, empties....

 in north east Fife

Fife

Fife is a council area and former county of Scotland. It is situated between the Firth of Tay and the Firth of Forth, with inland boundaries to Perth and Kinross and Clackmannanshire...

, Scotland

Scotland

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. It is most famous for its location at the southern end of the Tay Rail Bridge

Tay Rail Bridge

The Tay Bridge is a railway bridge approximately two and a quarter miles long that spans the Firth of Tay in Scotland, between the city of Dundee and the suburb of Wormit in Fife ....

. Its railway station (closed in 1969) was on a closed branch line which left the main line (Edinburgh/Dundee) railway immediately at the south end of the Bridge to serve Wormit/Newport. The closed Wormit station was subsequently dismantled and rebuilt at the heritage Bo'ness & Kinneil Railway located to the west of Edinburgh.

Wormit claims to be the first Scottish village to have installed electricity. A windmill located on Wormit Hill generated the power, with a steam engine supplementing this when the wind was low. This was later replaced by a coal-gas engine until the 1930s, when Wormit was connected to the national grid. Alexander Stewart, who built many of the houses in Wormit, offered electrical lighting to homeowners and also basic street lighting. Consumers paid 10 shillings a quarter and could use as much electricity as they liked. The first houses to have electricity had sun rays painted on the front as a symbol that they were the first, and this is mostly noticeable along the highest row of terraced housing in the village (Hill Crescent).

The town expanded and grew into a commuter

Commuting

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 suburb

Suburb

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 of Dundee

Dundee

Dundee is the fourth-largest city in Scotland and the 39th most populous settlement in the United Kingdom. It lies within the eastern central Lowlands on the north bank of the Firth of Tay, which feeds into the North Sea...

 after the rail bridge opened in 1887 as the more wealthy Dundonians built their residences in Wormit.

Together with Woodhaven

Woodhaven, Fife

Woodhaven used to be a small village between Newport-on-Tay and Wormit in Fife, Scotland but over the years due to expansion of both these villages it is now just the name for a harbour.During World War II the RAF had a flying boat station at Woodhaven....

 and Newport-on-Tay

Newport-on-Tay

Newport-on-Tay is a small town in the north east of Fife in Scotland, acting as a commuter suburb for Dundee. The Fife Coastal Path passes through Newport.-History:...

, Wormit is a part of The Burgh of Newport-on-Tay.

During the Second World War, King Haakon VII of Norway stayed in Wormit, in a house along Riverside Road. During this time his soldiers painted a sea motif for the king on the walls of the bathroom, and the motif is still present in the house. Norwegian Catalina flying boats were stationed at Woodhaven, and a Norwegian flag is still flown in the harbour, from where occasional pleasure sailings operate to Perth and back.

In 1955 there was a serious train crash in Wormit station in which three people were killed and forty one were injured.

Though small, Wormit has a lot of amenities which serve a wider area. It has its own primary school, Church of Scotland

Church of Scotland

The Church of Scotland, known informally by its Scots language name, the Kirk, is a Presbyterian church, decisively shaped by the Scottish Reformation....

, blacksmith

Blacksmith

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, garage, post office, hair dresser, general merchandise shop and also tennis, bowling and boating clubs. Most children who live in Wormit go to secondary school at Madras College, St Andrews.

The local police station, which covers both Wormit and Newport, is also situated just inside Wormit.

It developed as a commuter settlement for upper and middle class business men commuting to the booming jute industry following the opening of the Tay Bridge in 1887, the village continued to grow as the more wealthy Dundonians built their homes in Wormit.

Amenities include Scottish country dancing, indoor board games, hockey, cross country running, a successful football programme and tennis which is run through The Wormit Tennis Club. The school also offer tuition in guitar and piano as well as having the school choir. Other amenities found in Wormit are a hairdresser, garage, blacksmith, newsagents, ruined games workshop, post office, Church of Scotland, as well as Wormit Lawn Tennis Club, Wormit Bowling Club (instituted 1901) and Wormit Boating Club founded in 1911.

Many tranquil country walks can be taken in the area along the coastline to Balmerino Abbey.