About
A handbook, not a rumour mill
This Is Dunfermline is an independent resident handbook and services directory for the City of Dunfermline in Fife. It is for people who already live here, and for people moving in.
What you will find here
Verified listings for GPs, dentists, pharmacies, the hospital, schools, nurseries, parks, leisure centres, libraries, community centres, community councils, transport and the recycling centre — organised by neighbourhood. Plus practical guides on registering with a GP, school catchments, and your first week in the city.
Heritage & Trails and What's On are planned next. The navigation and data model already make room for them; those hubs are marked coming soon until they are properly researched.
How listings are verified
We only publish a name, address or phone number when it appears on an official source — chiefly NHS Fife and Fife Council facility directories, plus Fife Sports and Leisure Trust, ScotRail and National Rail for leisure and stations. Every listing has a source URL and a last-verified date (currently 2026-11-11). If a directory does not publish a phone number or opening hours, we leave them blank rather than guess.
This is not an official Fife Council or NHS Fife website, and a listing is not a recommendation, or a promise that a practice, dentist or school is accepting new people. Always check the source, and the service itself.
How neighbourhoods are named
The map people use day to day does not always match a single official geography, so we grouped resident-facing areas from:
- City of Dunfermline community council areas, as listed on KnowFife and Fife Council’s community council pages
- KnowFife intermediate-zone neighbourhoods used in the Local Strategic Assessment 2024
Whitefields is grouped with Halbeath, and Kingswood with Kingseat, because that is how new housing on the city’s edge will be looked up. Crossgates is an adjoining settlement that KnowFife includes in the City of Dunfermline Area, so its official services appear with Halbeath & Whitefields and are labelled as Crossgates.
Money, later
The long-term plan is to fund the site with featured listings, estate agent and new-build sponsors on new-estate pages, and a newsletter sponsor. There are no prices yet. If you offer a local service, see Get featured.
Domain
The site is intended to live at thisisdunfermline.com. A thisisdunfermline.co.uk address may later redirect here. Nothing has been deployed from this first build.