Winter Bridges On Visit To Firth Of Forth Scotland

Tour Scotland 4K Winter travel video of the two road bridges, and the railway bridge, which span the Firth of Forth, on visit to South Queensferry near Edinburgh. The two road bridges are the Quuensferry Crossing, which is closest in the video and the original Forth Bridge, behind those is the iconic Forth Railway Bridge. The Firth of Forth, Scottish Gaelic: Linne Foirthe, is the estuary, or firth as we say in Scotland, of several Scottish rivers including the River Forth. It meets the North Sea with Fife at on the north coast and at Lothian, near Edinburgh on the south coast. It was known as Bodotria in Roman times. In the Norse sagas it was known as the Myrkvifiörd. An early Welsh name is Merin Iodeo, or the " Sea of Iudeu." The bridges are 35 miles from Perth, Perthshire, 47 miles from Glasgow, and 15 miles from the centre of Edinburgh All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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