South Queensferry

South Queensferry (Gaelic: Cas Chaolais (steep channel) ) is a town in the Scottish Unitary Authority City of Edinburgh on the south shore of the Firth of Forth. Before the local government reform it was in West Lothian ( Linlithgowshire ). It is about eight kilometers south-southeast of Dunfermline and 15 km west of central Edinburgh location. In 2001, South Queensferry recorded 9370 inhabitants. On the opposite bank of the Firth of Forth is North Queensferry, which is connected to the southern shore of the Forth Road Bridge.

History

South Queensferry was first mentioned as the place where Margaret of Scotland, the second wife of King Malcolm III. , Often the Firth of Forth crossed on the way to Dunfermline. From this historical event, the present-day town name derives from. In the earliest mentions of the settlement as a port Reginœ or passagium is called Reginœ. King Malcolm IV of Scotland, great-grandson of Margaret, awarded to the monks of Dunfermline the Fährrechte as well as surrounding lands. Probably this was the nucleus of the city's founding. 1164 received the monks of Scone the right of free passage. A ferry wrong at this point until 1964, when the Forth Road Bridge was opened to traffic. Despite the early colonization of South Queensferry grew slowly. So it recorded in 1851 only 1195 inhabitants and a hundred years later 2486th However, between 1960 and 2000 continued an active growth, and the city was its population in this period more than tripled.

Views over the Firth of Forth to North Queensferry

The Hopetoun House west of South Queensferry

Sons of the city

• Stephen Hendry (born 1969 ), a seven-time World Snooker Champion