| Country: | Scotland |
| Official Name: | St Fort |
| Os Grid Reference: | NO4125 |
| Map Type: | Scotland |
| Coordinates: | 56.413°N -2.958°W |
| Post Town: | NEWPORT-ON-TAY |
| Postcode District: | DD6 |
| Postcode Area: | DD |
| Dial Code: | 01382 |
| Static Image Name: | St Fort Hill - geograph.org.uk - 153639.jpg |
| Static Image Caption: | St Fort Hill |
St Fort (or) is a rural area, largely in Forgan parish, Fife. The current form of the name is late eighteenth century, the origin being a sandy ford on the Motray Water,[1] [2] [3] in all likelihood the ford earlier known as Adnectan or Nechtan's ford.[3] St Fort Hill lies immediately to the south of Newport-on-Tay and William Burn’s St Fort House, a large baronial mansion, demolished in 1953, lay on its southern slopes. The Home Farm, to its west, survives.[4] Further south, the area was formerly served by St Fort railway station, on the Edinburgh–Aberdeen line. The triangular adjunct of the St Fort junctions, connecting the now-defunct Newburgh and North Fife Railway, lay to the station's south-east.
Baillie Scott’s Arts and Crafts style Sandford House Hotel, taking the earlier form of the area's name, lies immediately to the station's west, just into Kilmany parish.[5] [1] [2] [6] [7] Its restoration as a residence and holiday cottages was documented in the BBC television series Restoration Home.[8] [9] [10]
The area is one of the origins of the surname Sandford.[11] It is not to be confused with St Ford, 15 miles to the southeast in the parish of Kilconquhar, similarly sharing its origin as Sandford.[12]