South Queensferry
South Queensferry is a town that is part of the City of
Edinburgh,
Scotland, on the
Firth of Forth, between the
Forth Rail Bridge and the
Forth Road Bridge.
The town is named after
Saint Margaret of Scotland who used to cross the firth by ferry from "Queen's Ferry" to visit her chapel in
Edinburgh Castle. She died in 1093 and made her final journey by ferry to
Dunfermline Abbey. Her son,
David I of Scotland, awarded the ferry rights to the abbey.
There had been ferries at South Queensferry until 1964 when the
Forth Road Bridge was opened.