B944 (Anstruther - Brownhills)

This article is about the original B944 in East Fife.
For the current B944, a short road in Buckhaven, see B944.

Heading south

The B944 was a cross-country B-road in east Fife. It started on the A917 in Anstruther and headed north, cutting off the eastern corner of Fife, before ending on the A918 at Brownhills, to the south of St Andrews, and is now numbered as the B9131 throughout.

The road was upgraded to be the A959 very early, possibly in 1924, and remained so through to at least 1969. However, it has since been returned to B-road status, probably in the 1980s when Fife reclassified a number of routes. The B944 number had been re-used in Buckhaven further west along the Fife Coast before 1929, making the re-instatement of the number impossible. In the meantime, before 1932, the B9131 number had been used for a loop through Anstruther, serving the harbour. It was therefore natural to extend this route along the former B944 route when it was downgraded once more.

The 1922 MOT Road List defines this route as: Anstruther - St Andrews