Forth Road Bridge
The Forth Road Bridge is a suspension bridge that crosses the Firth of Forth in Scotland. The bridge opened in 1964 and, at the time, was the longest suspension bridge in the world outside the United States.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Queensferry Crossing and Port Edgar.
Queensferry Crossing
Bridge
Photo: KlausFoehl, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Queensferry Crossing is a road bridge in Scotland. It was built alongside the existing Forth Road Bridge and the Forth Bridge. It carries the M90 motorway across the Firth of Forth between Edinburgh, at South Queensferry, and Fife, at North Queensferry. Queensferry Crossing is situated 2,100 feet west of Forth Road Bridge.
Port Edgar
Marina
Photo: Bob Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Port Edgar is a marina on the southern shore of the Firth of Forth, immediately west of the Forth Road Bridge and the town of South Queensferry, in Edinburgh, Scotland. Port Edgar is situated 2,600 feet southwest of Forth Road Bridge.
Inch Garvie
Islet
Photo: Kitkatcrazy, Public domain.
Inchgarvie or Inch Garvie is a small, uninhabited island in the Firth of Forth. On the rocks around the island sit four caissons that make up the foundations of the Forth Bridge.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include North Queensferry and South Queensferry.
North Queensferry
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
North Queensferry is a village in Fife in central Scotland, with a population of just over 1000 in 2022. It's on the north bank of the Firth of Forth, at a narrow point that has been a ferry crossing for many centuries.
South Queensferry
Photo: Tony Hisgett, CC BY 2.0.
South Queensferry is a town on the south bank of the Firth of Forth in West Lothian, 10 miles west of Edinburgh. Historically it was the ferry port for crossing to Fife, then in modern times it acquired three bridges.
Jamestown
Hamlet
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Jamestown is a hamlet in Fife, Scotland, on the south side of Inverkeithing's Inner Bay. The nearby Jamestown Viaduct carries the Fife Circle Line over the hamlet, and the M90 passes by to the west.
Forth Road Bridge
- Type: Bridge
- Description: bridge in east central Scotland
- Categories: suspension bridge, steel bridge, road bridge, and transportation
- Location: Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
56.00057° or 56° 0′ 2″ northLongitude
-3.4041° or 3° 24′ 15″ westInception
1964Height
512 feet (156 metres)Width
108 feet (33 metres)Open location code
9C8R2H2W+69OpenStreetMap ID
way 556247740OpenStreetMap feature
man_made=bridge
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Forth Road Bridge” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جسر فورث رود”
- Basque: “Forth Road zubi esekia”
- Chinese: “福夫公路橋”
- Chinese: “福斯公路大桥”
- Chinese: “福斯公路大橋”
- Chinese: “福斯公路橋”
- Czech: “Forth Road Bridge”
- Danish: “Forthbroen”
- Dutch: “Forth Road Bridge”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كوبرى الطريق الرابع”
- Estonian: “Forthi maanteesild”
- French: “pont autoroutier du Forth”
- French: “Pont autoroutier du Forth”
- French: “Pont sur le Forth”
- German: “Forth Road Bridge”
- Hungarian: “Forth Road híd”
- Indonesian: “Jembatan Jalan Forth”
- Italian: “Forth Road Bridge”
- Japanese: “フォース道路橋”
- Korean: “포스 로드 교”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Forth Road-broen”
- Norwegian: “Forth Road-broen”
- Persian: “پل فورث رود”
- Polish: “Forth Road Bridge”
- Portuguese: “Ponte Forth Road”
- Russian: “Форт-Роуд-Бридж”
- Russian: “Форт-Роуд”
- Scots: “Forth Road Brig”
- Slovak: “Forth Road Bridge”
- Spanish: “puente Forth Road”
- Spanish: “Puente Forth Road”
- Swedish: “Forthbron”
- Ukrainian: “Міст Форт-Роуд”
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