ANSTRUTHER (locally pronounced Anster), seaport, Fif e shire, Scotland. It comprises the royal burghs of Anstruther Easter (pop. in 1931, 682), Anstruther Wester (J93), and of Kilrenny (2,3J7), and lies 9m. S.S.E. of St. Andrews, having a station on the L.N.E.R. The town's chief industries include coast and deep-sea fisheries, manufactures of shipping and gear, shipbuilding, the making of cod-liver oil and fish-curing. The two Anstruthers are divided by a small stream called Dreel Burn. James Melville (1556-1614), a nephew of the more celebrated reformer, Andrew Melville, who was minister at Kilrenny, has given in his Diary a graphic account of the arrival at Anstruther of a weather-bound ship of the Armada, and the tradition of inter mixture of Spanish and Fifeshire blood still survives. Little more than a mile to the west lies the royal and police burgh of Pitten weem (Gaelic for "the hollow of the cave"), a quaint old fishing town (pop. 1,751) with remains of a priory. About two miles still farther westward is the fishing town of St. Monans or Abercromby (pop. 1,916), with a fine Gothic church, picturesquely placed on the rocky shore.