Sandyhill

Sandyhill SSL S NO515160 3

Wester Sandiehill 1649 Retours Fife no. 783 [Thomas Reid, 4 roods of arable land in the shed (sic) called Wester Sandyhill]
in illo territorio vulgo nuncupato the Wester Sandiehill 1696 Retours Fife no. 1384 [William Jack, 4 roods of arable land, ‘in that territory commonly called the Wester Sandyhill’]

Sc sandy + Sc hill

It was part of the Priory Acres, that is lands formerly belonging to St Andrews Priory. The name has survived in the street-names Sandyhill Court, Sandyhill Crescent and Sandyhill Road (see Smart and Fraser 1995, 53).

The above NGR is of Sandyhill Crescent.

This place-name appeared in printed volume 3