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Created first version (source was mostly the relevant Ordnance Survey map). I guess someone's going to get upset, saying "meanders through Stirling" isn't encyclopedic language, but it's true in the technical sense - there really are several tight loops in the river (meanders) so I'm really not being flowery, honest. -- Finlay McWalter 21:01, 15 Oct 2003 (UTC)

Finlay, I totally agree about meanders. Perhaps you read Twain's "Life on the Mississippi", about another meandering river, the longest in the world if you correctly include its major "tributary" the Missouri" No other river has a longer course than from the head of the Missouri to the sea at the Mississippi delta.DaveyHume (talk) 21:17, 31 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

In Edinburgh it is held that the River Forth begins as a stream from Ben Lomond, significantly further up the catchment area. That would make the Duchray Water the primary source. It is definitely longer than the Avon Dhu from Loch Ard, and just as wide where the two meet in Aberfoyle
DaveyHume (talk) 21:17, 31 October 2014 (UTC) Yes, I was born in Edinburgh.[reply]

Name origin[edit]

Where does the unusual name "Forth" come from? -- Beland 04:12, 30 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Article says that it is from the Gaelic.Pyrotec

I thought there was an alternative theory, and the "Forth" comes from fjordur -- i.e. "the Forth" means "the Fjord", referring to the fact that it's navigable all the way up to Stirling (you can't get past the bridges as there's a slight cataract under them that would have been just about fordable at low tide. Prof Wrong (talk) 19:24, 11 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

And it's MQ?[edit]

how many m3/s does it have on average? seems quite a lot. typically 1-2m/s and it is wide. isn't it? Wikistallion (talk) 20:41, 20 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Bridges[edit]

I’d love to edit this section, but I’ve never done it, and worry about formatting. There are more than 7 bridges between Stirling and Queensferry. Close by, and just downstream from the Old Bridge is the Stirling New Bridge (also known as the William IV Bridge), designed by Robert Stevenson, and which replaced the Old Bridge for wheeled traffic in 1833. This was the lowest road crossing until the Kincardine bridge in 1936. Adjacent to the east (downstream) stands the mid-19th C Stirling Forth Viaduct, built for the Stirling and Dunfermiline Railway some time prior to 1863 (when it is visible in an Ordnance Survey map). Finally, an unnamed bridge of 1985, known locally as the Taylorton Bridge, carries the A91 over the river to the northeast of Springkerse, as part of a bypass of the City of Stirling. Which totals, I believe, ten bridges. Giesabrek (talk) 20:57, 30 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]