TAYPORT  , a

police burgh of Fifeshire, Scotland . Pop . (1901) 3325 . It is situated on the Firth of Tay, here about 1 m. wide, opposite to Broughty Ferry, with which there is communication by means of a ferry, 51 m . N. of Leuchars Junction by the North British railway . Its older alternative name of Ferry Port on Craig has reference both to its uses and its site . Its industries include manufactures of linen and jute, spinning mills, engineering works, timber-yard and salmon fishery . In other respects it is a residential quarter for Dundee . A mile S.W. is the estate of Scotscraig, which belonged to Archbishop Sharp (1613—1679), of whose mansion there are still some traces . Two miles and a half W. by S. is the police burgh of NEWPORT (pop . 2869), with stations at Easter and Wester Newport, on the North British Railway Company's loop line from Leuchars Junction to Wormit . It lies on the Firth of Tay opposite to Dundee, with which there is communication by means of a ferry, as well as by rail via the Tay Bridge .

Even to a greater extent than has Tayport, it has practically become a suburb of Dundee . Its small

harbour was designed by Telford . Two and a quarter miles S.W. of Wormit, thenearest railway station, close to the southern terminus of the Tay Bridge, is the village of BALMERINO (Gaelic, " Town on the seashore ") . Its once considerable shipping trade has declined, but some fishery is still carried on . In 1227 Ermengarde, widow of William the Lion, and her son Alexander II. founded a Cistercian Abbey here, but in 1604 the Abbey estates were converted into a temporal lordship in favour of James Elphinstone, created Lord Balmerino .