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5 unusual facts about Firth of Forth


Eadwulf Evil-child

De primo Saxonum adventu, an 11th- or 12th-century compilation from earlier sources, notes that after the death of Osulf, Northumbria was divided into two parts: Eadulf Evil-child receiving the lands between the Myreford (arguably the Firth of Forth) and the River Tees and Oslac receiving the lands between the Humber Estuary and the Tees.

Fishing industry in Scotland

The distribution of the species is therefore limited by the extent of these mud patches, which are found in the Firth of Forth, Moray Firth, the North and South Minches, the Clyde estuary, and the Fladen ground, in the centre of the North Sea.

Seacoal

Coal that washes up on the seashore in places such as the Firth of Forth.

Sopwith Cuckoo

Training took place in the Firth of Forth, where Cuckoos launched practice torpedoes at targets towed by destroyers.

Walter Bower

Abbot Walter Bower, C.R.S.A., (or Bowmaker) (ca. 1385 – 24 December 1449) was a Scottish canon regular of Inchcolm Abbey in the Firth of Forth, who is noted as a chronicler of his era.


Anstruther

With a population of 3,500, it is the largest community on the Firth of Forth's north-shore coastline known as East Neuk.

Clan Primrose

The seat of the Chief of Clan Primrose is still at Dalmeny House in Dalmeny on the Firth of Forth in Scotland.

Father Malachy's Miracle

The date comes and the building and all the people inside do indeed vanish, reappearing on Bass Rock, a small island in the Firth of Forth.

France and Germany Star

The qualifying sea area is the North Sea south of a line from the Firth of Forth to Kristiansand (South), in the English Channel and in the Bay of Biscay east of longitude 6° west, provided such service was directly in support of land operations in France, Belgium, the Netherlands or Germany.

Inchcolm

In the days when people were compelled to cross the Firth of Forth by boat as opposed to bridge, the island was a great deal less isolated, and on the ferry routes between Leith/Lothian and Fife.

Manaw Gododdin

South of the Firth of Forth and River Forth the name survives in the name of Slamannan Moor and the village of Slamannan, in Stirlingshire.

NBR 224 and 420 Classes

Until the opening of the Forth Bridge in 1890, passengers from Edinburgh to Dundee would cross the Firth of Forth by a ferry from Granton which connected with trains at Burntisland.

North Carr Lightship

She created quite a stir in Edinburgh on account of her fog horn being tested while lying at ¾ mile outside Granton in the Firth of Forth.

Scotia

Use of the name shifted in the Middle Ages to designate the part of the island of Great Britain lying north of the Firth of Forth, the Kingdom of Alba.


see also

Cockenzie power station

Seawater from the Firth of Forth was used as a cooling medium.

William Wynter

Eight ships including the Antelope and Lyon carried on into the Firth of Forth towards the fortress Island of Inchkeith on 21 January.