Baldinnie lies about one and a half miles from the village of Ceres on the Anstruther Road and is situated considerably higher than Ceres. Extensive views can be had from here towards the North and West. The few houses which make up the hamlet have now no school, post--office or shop and the Hall has become a barn.

Pitscottle is another collection of houses clustered round busy crossroads also about one and a half miles from Ceres on the St. Andrews Road. With 2 garages, a general store-cum-post office, an Inn and a large agricultural spraying depot, it is much busier than Baldinnie.

Craigrothie is a larger and still growing village and stands about 2 miles west of Ceres on the Kirkcaldy Road. It still has a Primary School, but the shop has closed down. Quite a number of Council houses have been built over the years and several old houses and cottages have been renovated. The village has a very good Hall, recently modernised mainly by the efforts of the villagers, where religious services are sometimes held and the S.W.R.I. meets regularly, as do other local organisations. At the foot of the village is the old village Inn and a road opposite leads to Craigrothie House, part of which was built in the 18th century, along with its "Ice-house". In its old garden is the great Cedar Tree of unknown age, now a shadow of its former self, owing to storm damage. Robert Gourlay was born at Craigrothie House in 1778; heir to a large estate, he was to prove himself ahead of his times in his ideas of farming. He fell foul of fellow land-owners and public authorities, first in Fife and later in both England and Canada, and suffered imprisonment and banishment for his beliefs.

Chance Inn the last collection of houses within the Parish, lies about a mile west of Craigrothie. Once known as Change Inn because it was a stage where the coach horses were changed before continuing their journey to Cupar. Now there is no Inn nor shop and the tiny village lies peacefully on a side road, but within sight of the traffic rushing past on the nearby main road.