South, a parliamentary and royal burgh of Scotland, in the county of Linlithgow, on the right bank of the Forth, 9 miles N.W. of Edinburgh. It is an irregularly-built place, containing a curious ancient chapel, a new church, and a meanly-built town-hall. The town has very much declined in importance, having been dependent chiefly on the ferry, which was once the principal means of communication between Edinburgh and the north, but which has been in a great measure superseded by that from Granton to Burntisland. Queensferry is said to derive its name from Margaret, Queen of Malcolm III., who used to embark here. Pop. (1851) of the parish, 1165; of the parliamentary burgh, 720.