Brucefield, a village in Dunfermline parish, Fife, ½ mile SSE of Dunfermline town. A flax spinning-mill was erected here in 1792, and was the earliest establishment of its kind in Dunfermline parish; but suspended operations about 1840. Brucefield House is in the vicinity.
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