Peatdraught Bay

Peatdraught Bay is a bay in Edinburgh, Scotland. Peatdraught Bay is situated nearby to the locality Hound Point, as well as near Whitehouse Point.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Hound Point and Barnbougle Castle.

Hound Point

Pier

Photo: W waltersen, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Hound Point is a marine terminal off a rocky headland of that name on the southern shore of the Firth of Forth, Scotland, just east of the Forth Bridge at South Queensferry.

Barnbougle Castle

Castle

Photo: Jonathan Oldenbuck, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Barnbougle Castle is a historic tower house on the southern shore of the Firth of Forth, between Cramond and Queensferry, and within the parish of Dalmeny.

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 Dalmeny and North Queensferry.

Dalmeny

Village

Photo: Kim Traynor, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Dalmeny is a village and civil parish in Scotland. It is located on the south side of the Firth of Forth, 1 mile southeast of South Queensferry and 8 miles west of Edinburgh city centre.

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.

Peatdraught Bay

Type: Bay
Category: body of water
Location: Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

56.00118° or 56° 0′ 4″ north

Longitude

-3.35566° or 3° 21′ 20″ west

Open location code

9C8R2J2V+FP

OpenStreetMap ID

node 8155204778

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=bay

GeoNames ID

11153188

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