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Rosyth

Rosyth 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.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Inverkeithing railway station and Rosyth railway station.

Railway station
Photo: Rosser1954, CC BY-SA 4.0.
serves the town of in , . The station is managed by ScotRail and is on the Fife Circle Line, 10 miles north west of .

Railway station
Photo: Simon Johnston, CC BY-SA 2.0.
serves the town of Rosyth in , . The station is managed by ScotRail and lies on the Fife Circle Line, 14.7 miles north of .

Church
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
of St Peters is a category B listed church of the Church of Scotland, in the town of , .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include North Queensferry and Dunfermline.

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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.

Photo: Kilnburn, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a city in , 3 miles north of the Firth of Forth in central Scotland. The city was a royal residence, ecclesiastical centre and effective capital of Scotland from the 11th century, and many monarchs are buried at its abbey.

Photo: Tony Hisgett, CC BY 2.0.
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.

Rosyth

Latitude
56.0389° or 56° 2′ 20″ north
Longitude
-3.4207° or 3° 25′ 14″ west
Population
12,900
Elevation
105 feet (32 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB ROY
Open location code
9C8R2HQH+GP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 29339103
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2639104
Wiki­data ID
Q376329
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Rosyth” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “روسيث”
  • Asturian: “Rosyth”
  • Basque: “Rosyth”
  • Bengali: “রসিত”
  • Bulgarian: “Росйтх”
  • Cebuano: “Rosyth”
  • Chinese: “罗塞斯”
  • Chinese: “罗赛斯”
  • Chinese: “羅塞斯”
  • Chinese: “羅賽斯”
  • Dutch: “Rosyth”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “روسيث”
  • French: “Rosyth”
  • German: “Rosyth”
  • Gujarati: “રોઝીથ”
  • Irish: “Ros Fhíobh”
  • Irish: “Ros Fhìobh”
  • Italian: “Rosyth”
  • Japanese: “ロサイス”
  • Japanese: “ロシス”
  • Kannada: “ರೋಸಿತ್”
  • Korean: “로사이스”
  • Lithuanian: “Rosaitas”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Rosyth”
  • Norwegian: “Rosyth”
  • Persian: “روسیث”
  • Polish: “Rosyth”
  • Portuguese: “Rosyth”
  • Russian: “Росайт”
  • Scots: “Rosyth”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Ros Fhìobh”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Ros Saidhe”
  • Spanish: “Rosyth”
  • Swedish: “Rosyth”
  • Tamil: “ரோஸித்”
  • Telugu: “రోసిత్”
  • Ukrainian: “Росайт”
  • Urdu: “روسیتھ”
  • Welsh: “Rosyth”
  • “Ros Fhìobh”
  • “Rosyth”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Rosyth”. Photo: Wikimedia, OGL.