18-578: Hound Point is a marine terminal off a rocky headland of that name on the southern shore of the Firth of Forth , Scotland , just east of the Forth Bridge at South Queensferry . Opened in 1975, it is owned and operated by Ineos as an oil-export terminal for North Sea oil and is the largest such facility in Scotland. The terminal is made up of two sea-island berths that can load vessels of up to 350,000 DWT and
36-609: A bridge of around 900 boats, probably at South Queensferry. From 1964 to 1982, a tunnel existed under the Firth of Forth, dug by coal miners to link the Kinneil colliery on the south side of the Forth with the Valleyfield colliery on the north side. This is shown in the 1968 educational film Forth – Powerhouse for Industry . The shafts leading into the tunnel were filled and capped with concrete when
54-452: A swing bridge and opened to large ships, but this was closed in a final ceremony in 1988. The bridge had seven spans made of steel. There was a large control room at the top of the bridge, this used to be manned to allow the operators to open the bridge to large ships and river traffic. In 2005, it was given Category A listed status by Historic Scotland . During the last several decades, the town has suffered from increased congestion due to
72-654: A vapour recovery platform. Crude oil from the Forties pipeline undergoes stabilisation and gas processing and treatment at the Kinneil Terminal at Grangemouth before being pumped to a tank farm at Dalmeny on the southern shore of the Firth. The oil is then pumped to the Hound Point terminal where it is loaded onto tankers. The name 'Hound Point' derives from a local legend concerning the lord of nearby Barnbougle Castle , currently Lord Rosebery . The legend states that one of
90-476: A wide geographic area including places as far from the shore as Ben Lomond , Cumbernauld , Harthill , Penicuik and the edges of Gleneagles Golf Course . Many towns line the shores, as well as the petrochemical complexes at Grangemouth , commercial docks at Leith , former oil rig construction yards at Methil , the ship breaking facility at Inverkeithing and the former naval dockyard at Rosyth , along with numerous other industrial areas, including
108-479: Is a bird observatory on the Isle of May. A series of sand and gravel banks in the approaches to the firth have since 2014 been designated as a Nature Conservation Marine Protected Area under the name Firth of Forth Banks Complex . The youngest person to swim across the Firth of Forth was 13-year-old Joseph Feeney, who accomplished the feat in 1933. In 2008, a controversial bid to allow oil transfer between ships in
126-458: Is a town on the north shore of the Firth of Forth , in Fife , Scotland . The town was given the status of a burgh of barony in 1663. It was at one time a reasonably prosperous minor port. The townscape retains many good examples of Scottish vernacular buildings from the 17th, 18th and early 19th centuries, although it was greatly altered during the construction of Kincardine Bridge in 1932–1936. It
144-459: Is in the civil parish of Tulliallan . The name Kincardine , recorded in 1540 as Kincarne , may be of either Pictish or Gaelic origin (It is also recorded as Kincarnyne ). The second element is Pictish *carden , conceivably loaned into Gaelic, meaning "woodland" or perhaps "enclosure, encampment" ( Middle Welsh cardden ). The first element is the Gaelic ceann , "head end", but in view of
162-679: Is the estuary , or firth , of several Scottish rivers including the River Forth . It meets the North Sea with Fife to its north and Lothian to its south. Firth is a cognate of fjord , a Norse word meaning a narrow inlet. Forth stems from the name of the river; this is * vo-rit-ia ('slow running') in Proto-Celtic , yielding Foirthe in Old Gaelic and Gweryd in Welsh. It
180-697: The Forth Bridgehead area, encompassing Rosyth, Inverkeithing and the southern edge of Dunfermline , Burntisland , Kirkcaldy , Bo'ness and Leven . The firth is bridged in two places. The Kincardine Bridge and the Clackmannanshire Bridge cross it at Kincardine , while further east the Forth Bridge , the Forth Road Bridge and the Queensferry Crossing cross from North Queensferry to South Queensferry . The Romans reportedly made
198-513: The Forth road and rail bridges by carrying about 870,000 passengers each year. Despite its initial success, the project was cancelled in December 2011. The inner firth, located between the Kincardine and Forth bridges, has lost about half of its former intertidal area as a result of land reclamation, partly for agriculture, but mainly for industry and the large ash lagoons built to deposit spoil from
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#1733085369094216-481: The coal-fired Longannet Power Station near Kincardine . Historic villages line the Fife shoreline; Limekilns , Charlestown and Culross , established in the 6th century, where Saint Kentigern was born. The firth is important for nature conservation and is a Site of Special Scientific Interest . The Firth of Forth Islands SPA ( Special Protection Area ) is home to more than 90,000 breeding seabirds every year. There
234-500: The first lords set off to fight in the Crusades, leaving his beloved hunting-hound behind. At the moment the man was killed, the hound began howling uncontrollably, eventually dying of its grief. Ever since, the howling ghost of the hound is said to appear on the Point whenever the present lord is about to die. Firth of Forth The Firth of Forth ( Scottish Gaelic : Linne Foirthe )
252-436: The firth was refused by Forth Ports . SPT Marine Services had asked permission to transfer 7.8 million tonnes of crude oil per year between tankers, but the proposals were met with determined opposition from conservation groups. North shore South shore Kincardine-on-Forth Kincardine ( / k ɪ n ˈ k ɑːr d ɪ n / kin- KAR -din ; Scottish Gaelic : Cinn Chàrdainn ) or Kincardine-on-Forth
270-588: The increase of vehicles using the bridge. This heavy congestion was reduced in 2005 by the opening of an eastern bypass connecting the Kincardine bridge with the A985 Inverkeithing / Forth Road Bridge artery. In 2008 the western section of the town was bypassed with the opening of the Clackmannanshire Bridge . Kincardine is also the location of the Scottish Police College at Tulliallan Castle on
288-411: The second element's "Pictish" distribution, it is most appropriately seen as an adaptation or translation of the cognate Pictish *pen , of the same meaning ( Welsh pen ), and the original form may have been *Pencarden . Kincardine Bridge runs south from Kincardine. It is the main crossing-point of the Firth of Forth between the Queensferry Crossing and Stirling . Kincardine Bridge used to be
306-435: The tunnel was closed, and it is believed to have filled with water or collapsed in places. In July 2007, a hovercraft passenger service completed a two-week trial between Portobello, Edinburgh and Kirkcaldy, Fife. The trial of the service (marketed as "Forthfast") was hailed as a major operational success, with an average passenger load of 85 per cent. It was estimated the service would decrease congestion for commuters on
324-706: Was known as Bodotria in Roman times and was referred to as Βοδερία in Ptolemy 's Geography . In the Norse sagas it was known as the Myrkvifiörd . An early Welsh name is Merin Iodeo , or the 'sea of Iudeu '. Geologically, the Firth of Forth is a fjord , formed by the Forth Glacier in the last glacial period . The drainage basin for the Firth of Forth covers
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