Inner bay

Inner bay is a bay in Fife, North East Scotland, Scotland. Inner bay is situated nearby to the hamlet Jamestown, as well as near the town Inverkeithing.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Inverkeithing railway station and Jamestown Viaduct.

Inverkeithing railway station

Railway station

Photo: Rosser1954, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Inverkeithing railway station serves the town of Inverkeithing in Fife, Scotland. The station is managed by ScotRail and is on the Fife Circle Line, 10 miles north west of Edinburgh Waverley.

Jamestown Viaduct

Bridge

Photo: Graeme Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.

The Jamestown Viaduct is part of the northern approach to the Forth Bridge in Scotland. It crosses Inverkeithing, over the hamlet of Jamestown, and the village of North Queensferry in Fife.

Inverkeithing Parish Church of St Peters is a Church of Scotland parish church in Inverkeithing in Fife, Scotland. Dating from before 1139, the church has been at the centre of historic events such as the Scottish Catholic-Culdee dispute of 1250; the Inverkeithing witch hunt of 1621 to 1655; and the Inverkeithing Case of 1752, which led to the Second Secession of the Church of Scotland.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Jamestown and Inverkeithing.

Jamestown

Hamlet

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Jamestown is a hamlet in Fife, Scotland. It is contiguous with North Queensferry and Inverkeithing, and is 9 miles northwest of Edinburgh city centre. Located on the south side of the Inner Bay of Inverkeithing Bay, an inlet of the Firth of Forth, Jamestown became an important centre for shipping and industry during the 19th century, and shipbreaking in the 20th century.

Inverkeithing

Town

Photo: Dunpharlain, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Inverkeithing is a coastal town, parish and historic Royal burgh in Fife, Scotland. The town lies on the north shore of the Firth of Forth, 9+1⁄2 mi northwest of Edinburgh city centre and 3+1⁄2 mi south of Dunfermline.

North Queensferry

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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.

Inner bay

Type: Bay
Also known as: “Inner Bay”
Category: body of water
Location: Fife, North East Scotland, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

56.02438° or 56° 1′ 28″ north

Longitude

-3.39594° or 3° 23′ 45″ west

Open location code

9C8R2JF3+QJ

OpenStreetMap ID

node 4004579497

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=bay

GeoNames ID

11153183

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