Firth of Forth

The Romans reportedly made a bridge of around 900 boats, probably at South Queensferry. In the 10th century, the river was considered the boundary of "Scotia" and was sometimes called "The Scots Water". 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 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. Construction of the Forth Bridge, a railway…