Orchardhead Wood

Orchardhead Wood is a deciduous forest in Fife, North East Scotland, Scotland. Orchardhead Wood is situated nearby to the locality Rosyth Europarc, as well as near Port of Rosyth.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Forth Road Bridge and Inverkeithing railway station.

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.

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.

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.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Rosyth and North Queensferry.

Rosyth

Photo: Wikimedia, OGL.

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.

North Queensferry

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.

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.

Orchardhead Wood

Type: Deciduous forest
Category: forest
Location: Fife, North East Scotland, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

56.0254° or 56° 1′ 32″ north

Longitude

-3.4247° or 3° 25′ 29″ west

Open location code

9C8R2HGG+54

OpenStreetMap ID

way 365852087

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=wood

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Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Rosyth Europarc and Port of Rosyth.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Pocket park and The Old Signal Station.

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