South Queensferry Attractions

The vast Forth Railway Bridge in South Queensferry stands 150ft/45m above the water and extends for 2,756yd/2,529m. The engineer Sir John Fowler and Sir Benjamin Baker collaborated on its design and it was completed in the 1880s.

The delicately engineered Forth Road Bridge in South Queensferry was opened in 1964. With a span width of 1,977yd/1,814m it is one of the longest suspension bridges in Europe.

Historic Hawes Inn by the pier of the same name is mentioned in Robert Louis Stevenson's "Kidnapped" and Scott's "The Antiquary".

Plewlands House was gifted to the National Trust of Scotland in 1953. The house was built in 1643 with an L-plan design and has an unusually placed stairway half-way along the side of the north wing.