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In 1882-4, Frances Groome's Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland described North Queensferry like this:
Queensferry, North, a village of Fife in the detached section of the civil parish of Dunfermline, but (since 1855) in the ecclesiastical parish of Inverkeithing, at the extremity of Ferryhill peninsula, on the N coast of the Firth of Forth, directly opposite Queensferry, and 1¾ mile S of Inverkeithing. ...
William, Bishop of St Andrews, in 1323 gave its chapel of St James to the abbey of Dunfermline; in 1781, after the visit of Paul Jones to the firth, it acquired a battery, long ago dismantled. A favourite summer resort for sea-bathing, it has a post office, with money order, savings' bank, and telegraph departments, a railway station, a coastguard station, a Free church, and a public school. Pop. (1831) 434, (1861) 369, (1871) 382, (1881) 360.—Ord. Sur., sh. 32, 1857.
North Queensferry is now part of FIFE Council. Click here for graphs and data of how FIFE has changed over two centuries. For statistics about North Queensferry itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of North Queensferry in Fife | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/26866
Date accessed: 08th November 2025
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