Queensferry

Queensferry, additionally known as South Queensferry or actually The Ferry, is a city to the west of Edinburgh, Scotland, historically a royal burgh of West Lothian. It lies ten miles to the north-west of Edinburgh town centre, on the shore of the Firth of Forth between the Forth Bridge, Forth Road Bridge and the Queensferry Crossing. The prefix South serves to differentiate it from North Queensferry, on the other shore of the Forth. Both cities derive their name from the ferry provider mounted by Queen Margaret in the eleventh century, which persisted to function at the city till 1964, when the Road Bridge was opened.

Its populace at the 2011 census became 9,026 based totally on the 2010 definition of the locality. The Forth Bridge is a cantilever railway bridge throughout the Firth of Forth within the east of Scotland, 14 kilometre west of Edinburgh City Centre. It is taken into consideration as a image of Scotland having been voted Scotland's finest man-made marvel in 2016, and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It turned into designed by way of the English engineers Sir John Fowler and Sir Benjamin Baker. It is now and again known as the Forth Rail Bridge to distinguish it from the Forth Road Bridge, although this has in no way been its legit name.