North Queensferry
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.Photo: Kim Traynor, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Forth Road Bridge and Queensferry Crossing.
Forth Road Bridge
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.
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.
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 South Queensferry and Rosyth.
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.
Rosyth
Rosyth is a port in Fife in central Scotland. It was built from 1909 as housing for the workers at the Royal Navy dockyard so it's modern and industrial, with a population in 2016 of 13,780.
Dalgety Bay
Town
Photo: Arcaist, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Dalgety Bay is a coastal town and parish in Fife, Scotland, on the north shore of the Firth of Forth, nine miles from Edinburgh city centre. The civil parish is the eighth-largest in Fife, with a population of 9,710 in 2020. Dalgety Bay is situated 2½ miles northeast of North Queensferry.
North Queensferry
- Type: Village with 1,070 residents
- Description: village in Fife, Scotland, UK
- Category: locality
- Location: Fife, North East Scotland, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
56.0098° or 56° 0′ 35″ northLongitude
-3.3946° or 3° 23′ 41″ westPopulation
1,070Elevation
23 feet (7 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB NOQOpen location code
9C8R2J54+W4OpenStreetMap ID
node 29338608OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Tatar—“North Queensferry” goes by many names.
- Basque: “North Queensferry”
- Belarusian: “Паўночная Кўінсфэры”
- Cebuano: “North Queensferry”
- Chinese: “北昆斯費里”
- Chinese: “北昆斯费里”
- Dutch: “North Queensferry”
- French: “North Queensferry”
- German: “North Queensferry”
- Irish: “Port na Banrighinn a Tuath”
- Irish: “Port na Banrighinn”
- Italian: “North Queensferry”
- Japanese: “ノース・クィーンズフェリー”
- Persian: “نورث کوینزفری”
- Scots: “The Ferry”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Port na Banrighinn a Tuath”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Port na Banrighinn”
- Spanish: “North Queensferry”
- Swedish: “North Queensferry”
- Tatar: “Төньяк Квинсферри”
- “North Queensferry”
- “Port na Banrighinn”
- “Port na Banrighinn a Tuath”
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