Ordnance gazetteer of Scotland : a survey of Scottish topography, statistical, biographical and historical . the Royal Warden trainingship, and 1676 were in the parliamentary burgh, 1064in the royal burgh or parish of Queensferry.—, sh. 32, 1857. See W. W. Fyfes Summer Lifeon Land and Water at South Queensferrii (). Queensferry, North, a village of Fife in the detachedsection of the civil parish of Dunfermline, but (since1855) in the ecclesiastical parish of Inverkeithing, at theextremity of Ferryhill peninsula, on the N coast of theFirth of Forth, directly opposite Queensfer
Ordnance gazetteer of Scotland : a survey of Scottish topography, statistical, biographical and historical . the Royal Warden trainingship, and 1676 were in the parliamentary burgh, 1064in the royal burgh or parish of Queensferry.—, sh. 32, 1857. See W. W. Fyfes Summer Lifeon Land and Water at South Queensferrii (). Queensferry, North, a village of Fife in the detachedsection of the civil parish of Dunfermline, but (since1855) in the ecclesiastical parish of Inverkeithing, at theextremity of Ferryhill peninsula, on the N coast of theFirth of Forth, directly opposite Queensferry, and Ifmile S of Inverkeithing. William, Bishop of StAndrews, in 1323 gave its chapel of St James to theabbey of Dunfermline ; in 1781, alter the visit of PaulJones to the firth, it acquired a battery, long ago dis-mantled. A favourite summer resort for sea-bathing,it lias a post office, with money order, savings bank,and telegraph departments, a railway station, a coast-guard station, a Free church, and a public (1831) 434, (1861) 309, (1871) 382, (1881) 300.—Ord. Sur., sh. 32, Seal uf Queensferry. QUOTHQUAN Queensferry, South. See Queensferry. Queenshill, a mansion in Tongland parish, Kirk-cudbrightshire, 2 miles N of Tarff station. It was theresidence and death-place of James Beaumont Neilson, (1792-1863), inventor of the famous hot-blast, towhose memory a pyramid, 35 feet high, was erected in1883. His son, Walter Montgomerie Neilson, Esq. (), holds 1822 acres in the shire, valued at £1559 perannum.—Ord. Sur., sh. 5, 1857. Queich. See Queich, North, a rivulet of Kinross-shire, risingamong the Ochil Hills, adjacent to the boundary withPerthshire, and running 6i miles east-by-southward,chiefly within Orwell parish, but for 2 miles along orclose to the boundary with Kinross, till it falls into theNW corner of Loch Leven, 1 mile SE of Milnathort.—Ord. Sur., sh. 40, 1867. Queich, South, a rivulet, party of Perthshire, butchief
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