QUEENSFERRY TO MUSSELBURGH,
ACONG THE SHORE,
WITH HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE ~ NOTES OF THE
DIFFERENT TOWNS AND VILLAGES.
BY THE REV. JAMES S. MILL;
SOUTH QUEENSFERRY,
In the north-east of the county of Linlithgow, is a parish of small extent,
and lies on the shore of the Forth. Generally, it is supposed to have taken
its name from Margaret, the Queen of Malcolm Canmore, in Consequence of
her crossing here;ia her frequent excursions to and from Edinburgh and
Dunfermline. It is certainly a place of great antiquity, evidences of which
are abundant. enough, both in and around the town, in the structures and
relics still extant,
No houses of
any style or importance are found in it; while its streets, narrow and short,
with a number of lanes and alleys of a somewhat dark and dingy character,
but, on the whole; clean and tidy, with a fresh healthy air about them, do not
add to its importance. How it may have looked in the days when Margaret
' wa wont to pass.througb it on her many benevolent and political embassies,
we cannot say: not just as it does now indeed; and yet, after all, not any
very great change since then may have passed over it. There is a sort of
old-world look about it, a kind of air of eld, that reminds one very strongly
of far-back times; and although none of the present structures could, by
any possibility, have witnessed the ,queenly splendour and royal pomp of the
kind-hearted and well-beloved wife of Canmore in her journeyings through
it to and from the city, still not a few of them cannot, from their appearance,
be many generations later than that period.
Queensferry, it would seeqformed part of the parish of Dalmeny until
The town itself is small and of rather mean appearance.
