North Queensferry

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North Queensferry
Scottish Gaelic Port na Banrighinn
View of North Queensferry
View of North Queensferry
Coordinates 56 ° 1 ′  N , 3 ° 24 ′  W Coordinates: 56 ° 1 ′  N , 3 ° 24 ′  W
North Queensferry (Scotland)
North Queensferry
North Queensferry
Residents 1076 2011 census
administration
Post town INVERKEITHING
ZIP code section KY11
prefix 01383
Part of the country Scotland
Council area Fife
British Parliament Dunfermline and West Fife
Scottish Parliament Cowdenbeath

North Queensferry ( Scottish Gaelic : Port na Banrighinn ) is a town in the Scottish Council Area Fife on the north bank of the Firth of Forth . It is located about six kilometers south-southeast of Dunfermline and 16 km northwest of Edinburgh . In 2011 North Queensferry had 1,076 residents. On the opposite bank of the Firth of Forth is South Queensferry , which is connected to the north bank by the Forth Road Bridge .

history

Analogous to South Queensferry, the city was founded with Margaret of Scotland , the second wife of King Malcolm III. linked, which at this point often crossed the Firth of Forth on the way to Dunfermline. The current city name is derived from this historical event. A ferry operated here until 1964, when the Forth Road Bridge was opened to traffic.

traffic

North Queensferry is linked to the road network by the A90 which crosses the Firth of Forth on the Forth Road Bridge. A few kilometers north of North Queensferry this has been expanded to the M90 motorway. In the year the Forth Bridge opened , North Queensferry received its own station, which is now served by the Fife Circle Line of First ScotRail .

  • View over North Queensferry from the Forth Bridge

  • North Queensferry Railway Station

Web links

Commons : North Queensferry  - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Information from the Scottish Parliament
  2. ↑ a b North Queensferry. Fife. In: David Munro, Bruce Gittings: Scotland. An Encyclopedia of Places & Landscapes. Collins et al., Glasgow 2006, ISBN 0-00-472466-6 .
  3. ↑ 2011 census
  4. ^ Queensferry or South Queensferry. In: Francis H. Groome: Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Survey of Scottish Topography, Statistical, Biographical and Historical. Volume 6: (Pet - Zet). Thomas C. Jack, Grange Publishing Works, Edinburgh et al. 1885, pp. 232-233.