North Queensferry

North Queensferry is a village in 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.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Forth Road Bridge and Queensferry Crossing.

Bridge
The is a suspension bridge that crosses the in . The bridge opened in 1964 and, at the time, was the longest suspension bridge in the world outside the United States.

Bridge
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The is a road bridge in Scotland. It was built alongside the existing and the . It carries the M90 motorway across the between , at , and , at North Queensferry.

Islet
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Inchgarvie or is a small, uninhabited island in the . On the rocks around the island sit four caissons that make up the foundations of the .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include South Queensferry and Rosyth.

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is a town on the south bank of the Firth of Forth in , 10 miles west of Edinburgh. Historically it was the ferry port for crossing to Fife, then in modern times it acquired three bridges.

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is a port in 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.

Town
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is a coastal town and parish in , , on the north shore of the , nine miles from city centre. The civil parish is the eighth-largest in Fife, with a population of 9,710 in 2020. is situated 2½ miles northeast of North Queensferry.

North Queensferry

Latitude
56.0098° or 56° 0′ 35″ north
Longitude
-3.3946° or 3° 23′ 41″ west
Population
1,070
Elevation
23 feet (7 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB NOQ
Open location code
9C8R2J54+W4
Open­Street­Map ID
node 29338608
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2641280
Wiki­data ID
Q1009725
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Urdu—“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”
  • Urdu: “نارتھ کوئینز فیری”
  • “North Queensferry”
  • “Port na Banrighinn”
  • “Port na Banrighinn a Tuath”

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