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Northerly Queensferry occurs as town inside Fife, Scotland, on the Firth of Forth, between the Forth Bridge and the Forth Road Bridge.

A town is known as fallowing Saint Margaret of Scotland who used to cross a firth by ferry from either "Queen's Ferry" to visit her chapel around Edinburgh Castle. She died within 1093 & processed her final journeying by ferry to Dunfermline Abbey. Her boy, David I of Scotland, awarded the ferry rights to the abbey.

There got been ferries at Northward Queensferry until 1964 whilst a Forth Road Bridge was opened.

A town pier was designed by John Rennie. One of a independent attractions is the Deep Sea Globe marine aquarium.

N Queensferry is presently front yard to the acclaimed novelist Iain M. Banks. Gordon Brown also has a zero in the area.

See Also

Forth Road Bridge Forth Bridge South Queensferry

North Queensferry Community Council
The site for information about North Queensferry Community Council in Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom.






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