page_title: North Queensferry
section_title: Industry
hierarchical_section_title: North Queensferry / Industry
caption_attribution_description: English: A view of Cruick's Quarry, 2011, looking North East, the town of Dalgety Bay in the background
context_page_description: North Queensferry is a village in Fife, Scotland, situated on the Firth of Forth where the Forth Bridge the Forth Road Bridge, and the Queensferry Crossing all meet the Fife coast, some 10 miles from the centre of Edinburgh. According to the 2011 census, the village has a population of 1,076. It is the southernmost settlement in Fife.
context_section_description: While transport and especially the railways and ferries have been North Queensferry's most obvious industries, one local industry that pre-dated the arrival of the railway is quarrying. In the north east of the peninsula on which North Queensferry stands there is a vast quarry, Cruicks Quarry, owned by Tarmac. The stone is whinstone, or quartz dolerite, an extremely hard igneous rock found here as a geological sill. Dates vary, but the quarry has been worked at least since the 1820s. The quarry has been non-operational since 2009, although Planning Permission was granted by Fife CC in 2012 for further working. The stone from the sill was crushed down to various sizes, the most valuable being the 10 to 14 mm size used for road surfacing. In earlier times stone from the quarry was used to build the docks at Leith and Liverpool as well as many of the pavements of London. Ferryhills Road, which leads out of the village towards Inverkeithing, skirts the edge of this huge quarry.  A viewing platform on the west is now overgrown, but the quarry can be seen by turning right at Jamestown into Cruickness Road, then following the road round to the old weighbridge. The pool occupied by Deep Sea World is also an old whinstone quarry.
caption: Cruick's Quarry, one mile north of North Queensferry, in 2011, a view looking north-east with Dalgety Bay in the background
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