FUN DAY OUT | The Maid of the Forth, South Queensferry, Scotland
This is a great day out - a boat trip on the Maid of the Forth. Departing from South Queensferry and stopping off at Inchcolm Island, then back again sailing past the three magnificent bridges on the River Forth.
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Maid Of The Forth Boat Firth Of Forth South Queensferry Scotland
Tour Scotland travel video of the Maid Of The Forth boat returning to Hawes Pier by the Forth Railway Bridge on the Firth Of Forth by South Queensferry. The Maid of the Forth does sightseeing boat tours under Forth Bridge and to Inchcolm Island from South Queensferry
Inchcolm Island in the Firth of Forth
A trip on the ferry Maid of the Forth from South Queensferry under the Forth Bridge and past the Hound Point Tanker Terminal to Inchcolm Island. The former Augustinian Inchcolm Abbey is sometimes called the Iona of the East.
Boat trips of the Firth of Forth, Edinburgh, Scotland
Forth Boat Tours, Edinburgh, Scotland in June 2016.
This video was recorded during my family's trip to Edinburgh, Scotland , United Kingdoms .
Sightseeing tour along Firth of Forth,Edinburgh,Scotland UK by Forthtours..
During our Sightseeing tour along Firth of Forth,Edinburgh,Scotland UK by Forthtours.
The Forth Bridges Cruise departs from Hawes Pier, South Queensferry
Forth Bridges Cruise with a 1½ hour landing on Inchcolm Island. Explore the island’s historic Abbey - one of the best-preserved group of monastic buildings in Scotland. The Island is also a haven for wildlife and is well-known for its wartime coastal defences.
The island's former Augustinian Abbey (Historic Scotland), is one of the best-preserved group of monastic buildings in Scotland. Inchcolm is sometimes referred to as the 'Iona of the East' because of its connection with the Christian Missionary Saint Columba.
Dolphins between the Forth Bridges, filmed from Maid of the Forth
Seen today 12/09/13. Boats captain said it was the best sighting for 5 or 6 years. By the time I started filming we had missed the best, had been a pair swimming along side the boat before this.
Places to see in ( South Queensferry - UK )
Places to see in ( South Queensferry - UK )
Queensferry, also called South Queensferry or simply The Ferry, is a town to the west of Edinburgh, Scotland, traditionally a royal burgh of West Lothian. It lies some ten miles to the north-west of Edinburgh city centre, on the shore of the Firth of Forth between the Forth Bridge and the Forth Road Bridge. The prefix South serves to distinguish it from North Queensferry, on the opposite shore of the Forth. Both towns derive their name from the ferry service established by Queen Margaret in the 11th century, which continued to operate at the town until 1964, when the Road Bridge was opened.
A local fair dates from the 12th century. The modern fair, dating from the 1930s, takes place each August and includes the crowning of a local school-girl as the Ferry Fair Queen, a procession of floats, pipe bands, and competitive events such as the Boundary Race. The Fair also has a dedicated radio station, Jubilee1, which in May 2007 was awarded a licence to evolve into a full Public Service Community Station for North and South Queensferry.
Queensferry hosts the strange annual procession of the Burry Man during the Ferry Fair. This unique cultural event is over three hundred years old, and likely pagan in origin. The name 'Burry Man' almost certainly refers to the hooked fruits of the burdock plant - burrs - in which he is covered, although some have suggested that it is a corruption of 'Burgh Man', since the town is traditionally a royal burgh.
St Mary's Episcopal Church, also known as the Priory Church is the town's oldest building, built for the Carmelite Order of friars in the 1450s. It is the only medieval Carmelite church still in use in the British Isles, and is a category A listed building. After the Scottish Reformation of 1560 it served as the parish church until 1635. In 1890 it was reconsecrated for the Scottish Episcopal Church.
Black Castle is a house on the High Street built in 1626. When the original owner, a sea-captain, was lost at sea, his maid was accused of paying a beggar-woman to cast a spell. Both women were burned for witchcraft. Plewlands House is a 17th-century mansion in the centre of the village. It was restored in the 1950s as flats, and is now managed by the National Trust for Scotland. The Tolbooth, on the High Street, dates from the 17th century, with a clock-tower built in 1720.
The Hawes Inn, dating from the 17th century, lies east of Queensferry, almost under the Forth Bridge on its south side. It features in Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Kidnapped. Opposite the Hawes Inn is the pier which served the ferry (from which the town derives its name) until the opening of the Forth Road Bridge. The pier is now used by tourist boats including the ferry to Inchcolm.
South Queensferry Cemetery on Ferrymuir Lane at the south end of the town is unremarkable other than for the very large number of Royal Navy war graves, many for casualties of the Battle of Jutland (1916) who were brought here for burial. It is maintained and operated by the City of Edinburgh Council. It superseded the small graveyard on The Vennel in the centre of town.
Queensferry is served by Stagecoach's 40/40A/40B services which runs from Edinburgh Bus Station via Barnton and Dalmeny and Lothian Buses service 63 which also runs from Riccarton Campus via Sighthill, Gyle, Newbridge and Kirkliston. There is a service 22A from Tesco to Livingston operated by First Scotland East, an early morning service 21B connecting Ferrymuir (Tesco) to Harthill, and an X51 from Dunfermline to Livingston via Kirkliston and Queensferry. Ferry services run from the harbour to the islands within the Firth of Forth, including Inchcolm.
( South Queensferry - UK ) is well know as a tourist destination because of the variety of places you can enjoy while you are visiting South Queensferry . Through a series of videos we will try to show you recommended places to visit in South Queensferry - UK
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Birdwatching on the forth with rspb
Allison Leonard, RSPB's Forth Reserves Warden, describes what you can see if you book the next birdwatching cruise on Sunday, July 2 (6pm) on the Maid of the Forth from South Queensferry
Inchcolm Abbey & Forth Belle boat tour.
The first church was built in the mid-1100's. Of the original building, only the nave remains. Built of fine ashlar - blocks of squared stone - it probably bore some resemblance to St. Fillans Church, just across the water.
The second church was built after the devastating wars of Independence, possibly on the orders of Abbot Walter Bower. The whole building was covered by pointed stone barrel vaults similar to those which still survive at Dunglass Collegiate Church, near Cockburnspath in the Borders.
Inchcolm has the best-preserved cloister in Scotland, although most of what survives dates from the later medieval period and represents a far-from-typical arrangement. Its earliest surviving building is the chapter house, which dates from the 1200's, demonstrating that an earlier phase of buildings existed here.
Most of the cloister buildings were built in the 1400's, around the same time as the second church. However, variations in the masonry suggest that the walls incorporate earlier work. To make use of the existing structure, the later cloister buildings were built adjacent to the old church rather than the new one. A curiosity of the chapter house is that the handsome entrance doorway faces into the room, rather than outwards as might normally be expected and that its base is partly covered over. It is possible that the doorway slightly pre-dates the chapter house and was originally associated with some other structure.
The brethren who settled on Inchcolm were Augustinians, so-called because they were following the teachings of St. Augustine of Hippo, a theologian and philosopher who lived AD 354-430 in Numidia (now Algeria).
The life of the canons on Inchcolm was organised around a schedule of Masses, held at set times throughout the day and night. A mass dial, found at Incholm, is one of very few to have survived in Scotland. It would have been used as a sundial to chart the time dictating when the bells in the tower were to be tolled, calling the canons to worship.
An Edinburgh based sight seeing co., Forth Boat Tours takes patrons along Scotland's central waterway, the Firth of Forth on board the 98ft cruiser, Forth Belle. A meandering river that rises at Loch Ard and meets the sea just east of Edinburgh, the Firth of Forth is flanked by breath-taking scenery and is rich in offshore wildlife including seabirds, porpoises and seals.
A site of historical interest, the Forth has seen the rise and fall of the Roman Empire and invasions from England. Saint Margaret used the crossing from South Queensferry to North Queensferry to go from her chapel in Edinburgh Castle to the then capital-Dunfermline (Hence the name Queensferry).
The Iconic Forth Rail Bridge in Scotland
Filmed on board the Maid of the Forth cruise showing a train go by with the Scottish Flag in view!!!
Scotland Cruise and Firth of Forth Bridge
Scotland Cruise and Firth of Forth Bridge. 2016
Queen Elizabeth at South Queensferry - Part 1 off 2
Flying Over Firth of Forth
Sailing Under The Forth Rail Bridge, Scotland
Video of Cruise & Maritime's Discovery sailing under the Forth Rail Bridge on March 27th 2014 after departing from Rosyth.
NorthLink Ferry Sailing Under Queensferry Crossing Road Bridge Firth Of Forth Scotland
Tour Scotland windy Spring travel video of a NorthLink Ferry sailing under the Queensferry Crossing Road Bridge on the Firth of Forth on visit to Rosyth in Fife. NorthLink Ferries is an operator of passenger and vehicle ferries, as well as ferry services, between mainland Scotland and the Northern Isles of Orkney and Shetland
Cruise Ship Tender Boats Firth Of Forth Near Edinburgh Scotland
Tour Scotland video of cruise ship tender boats in the Firth of Forth on visit to South Queensferry near Edinburgh. These boats were tendering passengers to and from the Queen Elizabeth liner, named after Her Majesty the Queen, to Hawes Pier in South Queensferry. On cruise ships, lifeboat tenders do double duty, serving as tenders in day-to-day activities, but fully equipped to act as lifeboats in an emergency.
The Royal Mile, Edinburgh - Outside The Hub
South Queensferry Scotland
Queensferry a small village just out side Edinburgh, cruise ships come here and tender people ashore most go to edinburgh, I stayed in queensferry and had a look around.
Inchcolm Island & Forth Belle boat trip.
The story of Inchcolm does not end with the demise of the abbey. The island was later exploited for its isolation from the mainland and for its strategic position. The last of the canons were not long gone before Inchcolm was back in use. The island served as a quarantine station for plague-stricken ships entering the Forth in the late 1500's and early 1600's. It later found use in the Napoleonic Wars of the late 1700's and early 1800's. In the 1790's, a hospital was established here to serve the Russian fleet lying in the firth, and in 1795 a gun battery was built when a French invasion threatened. This was dismantled after the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. A century later, the island was in military use again. With the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, the Firth of Forth became one of the most heavily defended estuaries in Britain. At the east end of the island the emplacements for two 12-pounder and twin 6-pounder guns can still be seen. The observation post and war shelters also survive, the latter where the soldiers could relax during breaks from duty. The officers' mess and quarters, recreation and parade grounds and barrack blocks were sited on the west side of the island. These have all gone, but still surviving are the First World War 4.7-inch gun emplacements and battery commander's post (re-used as a fire control post during the Second World War) The brick-built NAAFI canteen is also still standing.
The military installations which represent Inchcolm's involvement in successive wars are now in a ruined state, following their deliberate demolition by engineers of the Territorial Army in the early 1960's
Did you know that in comparison with the rest of medieval society, monasteries were very clean places. The canons at Inchcolm washed their hands several times a day. Their hair was kept neat and tonsured. Clean clothing, bedding and warm water were provided by the chamberlain, one of a number of office-bearers who ensured that abbey life ran smoothly.
Inchcolm's reputation as a place of sanctity goes back centuries to the time of St colm. Nothing is known of this mysterious saint, though he later came to be associated with St Columba. The island was probably the site of an early Christian monastic cell, occupied by a hermit who acted as its guardian.
The monastery was established in the 1100's as a priory rising to abbey status in 1235. Buildings were altered and added during the 1200's, but expansion was halted in the 1300's when the abbey suffered repeated attacks by English forces. In the 1400's the abbey began to prosper again and a new church replaced the earlier building. Walter Bower, abbot of Inchcolm, wrote the Scotichronicon here in 1441. After the Reformation, the site passed to James Stewart, Lord Doune and his successors, the earls of Moray. The island played a vital role in defending the Forth during both world wars.
'Inch' is derived from the Gaelic innis, meaning, 'island'.
An Edinburgh based sight seeing co. Forth Boat Tours takes patrons along Scotland's central waterway, the Forth, on board the 98ft cruised, Forth Belle.
A meandering river that rises at Loch Ard and meets the sea just east of Edinburgh, the Firth of Forth is flanked by breath-taking scenery and is rich in off shore wildlife including seabirds porpoises and seals. A site of historical interest, the Forth has seen the rise and fall of the Roman Empire and invasions from England. Saint Margaret used the crossing from South Queensferry to North Queensferry to go from her chapel in Edinburgh Castle to the then capital - Dunfermline (hence the name Queensferry).
The Forth Road Bridge was formally opened on 4th March 1890 but was first used some weeks earlier on 21st January. The bridge was begun in 1883 and cost the lives of 98 men.
The bridge is even today, regarded as an engineering marvel. It is 1.6 miles in length and the double track is elevated 46 metres (151ft) above the water at high tide. Each main span comprises two 207.3 metres (670ft) cantilever arms supporting a central 106.7 metres (350ft) span truss.
Cruise Boat Forth Bridge Firth Of Forth Scotland
Tour Scotland video of a small cruise boat on the Firth of Forth by the Forth Railway Bridge. The Firth of Forth is the estuary or firth of Scotland's River Forth, where it flows into the North Sea, between Fife to the north and Lothian to the south. It was known as Bodotria in Roman times.