Town in Scotland

Inverkeithing

Inverkeithing is a coastal town, parish and historic Royal burgh in Fife, Scotland.

Plan a trip to Inverkeithing→From Glasgow

Every way there

Glasgow → Inverkeithing
57 km · quickest by road, 1h 21m · £6–8
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Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Inverkeithing
97 km · quickest by road, 2h 16m · £11–15
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Aberdeen → Inverkeithing
147 km · quickest by road, 2h 42m · £16–22
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

The field note

What is in and around Inverkeithing, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

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What Inverkeithing has

YScheduled flightsIngliston, Edinburgh (EDI), 9 km
YTrains and coachesTransitous carries 3 timetable feeds for this country, 2 with real-time
YFerriesHawes Pier, 5 km, Maid of the Forth; sailings estimated
YDriving and taxiOpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
NBike and scooter shareno share feed known
NCruisesno open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known.

56.032°, -3.397°

The town lies on the north shore of the Firth of Forth, 9+1⁄2 mi (15.5 km) northwest of Edinburgh city centre and 3+1⁄2 mi (5.5 km) south of Dunfermline.

How locals move

Getting around Inverkeithing the local way

Get aroundTaxi operators include NQ Ferry +44 1383 669755, Mac's Taxis +44 1383 411111, Graham's +44 1383 413505 and Forth Taxis +44 1383 611611.

From Wikivoyage: North Queensferry, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Harrybean07 (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.