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West Lothian
West Lothian (Scots: Wast Lowden, Scottish Gaelic: Lodainn an Iar) is one of the 32 unitary council areas in Scotland, and a Lieutenancy area. It borders the City of Edinburgh, Scottish Borders, South Lanarkshire, North Lanarkshire and Falkirk.
The council area was created in 1996, under the Local...
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Livingston
Livingston is a large, commercial town in West Lothian, Scotland. It is the fourth post-war new town to be built in Scotland, designated in 1962. It is located approximately 15 miles (25 km) west of Edinburgh and 30 miles (50 km) east of Glasgow,...
Uphall
Uphall in West Lothian is a rapidly growing village in a conurbation with Broxburn to the east, Dechmont to the west and the major town of Livingston to the south west. Uphall is 30 miles from Glasgow and 14 miles from Edinburgh in the Scottish...
Pumpherston
Pumpherston is a small dormitory village in West Lothian, Scotland. Originally a small industrial village to the nearby shale mine and works, it now adjoins the new town of Livingston, which was constructed alongside Pumpherston in the late 1960s...
Cairnpapple Hill
Cairnpapple Hill is a hill with a dominating position in central lowland Scotland with views from coast to coast. It was used and re-used as a major ritual site over about 4000 years, and in its day would have been comparable to better known sites...
Blackburn
Blackburn is a town in West Lothian, Scotland next to Bathgate and five miles from Livingston. It is situated about 32 kilometres (20 mi) from Edinburgh along the old A8 road between Edinburgh and Glasgow.
Blackburn means "the black burn (stream)",...
Abercorn
Abercorn (Gaelic: Obar Chùirnidh) is a village and parish in West Lothian, Scotland. Close to the south coast of the Firth of Forth, the village is around 5 km (3 miles) west of South Queensferry.
Saint Bede mentions Abercorn as the site of a...
Fauldhouse
Fauldhouse is a town in West Lothian, Scotland, lying roughly half way between Glasgow and Edinburgh.
Fauldhouse is known since the Middle Ages, and was known until the 19th century by the names "Falas" or latterly "Fallas." The seventeenth century...
Ainville
Ainville is a village in the Scottish council area of West Lothian.
Harthill
Harthill is a village which lies on the border between West Lothian and North Lanarkshire in central Scotland, about halfway between Glasgow and Edinburgh. It lies on the River Almond about two miles west of Whitburn. It is sometimes considered an...
Dechmont Law
Disambiguation: the name Dechmont, and an associated "Dechmont Hill" are also places near Cambuslang in Scotland
Dechmont Law is a hill in Livingston, West Lothian, Scotland. It lies around 700 yards south west of the village of Dechmont, where it...
Seafield
Seafield is a small village in West Lothian, Scotland. Seafield lies 1¼ miles (2 km) east of Blackburn and 2 miles (3 km) southeast of Bathgate (grid reference NT007660).
The village lies between the River Almond to the south and the M8 motorway to...
Winchburgh
Winchburgh is a village situated within the geographical county of West Lothian, Scotland. It is located approximately 10 miles (16 km) west of the city-centre of Edinburgh, 6 miles (9.7 km) east of Linlithgow and 3 miles (4.8 km) northeast of...
Mid Calder
Mid Calder (Scots: Mid Cauder) is a small town in West Lothian, Scotland. Those who dwell there say "the village" to speak of the oldest part of the thorp, perched on a steep hill overlooking the River Almond and Calder Wood.
The town has been on...
Stoneyburn
Stoneyburn is a village in West Lothian, Scotland. Nearby towns include Bathgate, Whitburn, Addiewell and Blackburn.
Stoneyburn is situated in the middle of central Scotland, some 4 miles from Bathgate in the north and 5 from Livingston in the east....
West Calder
West Calder is a village in West Lothian, Scotland, located 4 miles west of Livingston. The village was an important centre for the oil shale economy in the 19th and 20th Centuries. West Calder has its own railway station.It is also has the most...
Uphall Station
Uphall Station is a small village located in the geographical county of West Lothian, Scotland. The name is derived from neighbouring town Uphall on account of there being a small railway station located on the southeast perimeter of the village ...
Torphichen
Torphichen is a small village located near Bathgate, West Lothian, Scotland. The village church is said to have been founded by St. Ninian in about 400CE, a small wooden structure on the site of the present church (itself rebuilt in 1756). The...
Polbeth
Polbeth is a former coal-mining village located in and is not far from Livingston, West Lothian, Scotland.
Blackridge
Blackridge is a small town located in the western part of West Lothian, Scotland.
The village name dates to 1581, first recorded as Blakrig. Later, Blackrig and then Blackrigg became the standard spelling until Blackridge became the norm in official...
Breich
Breich is a small village lying in the western part of West Lothian in Scotland. It lies on the A71, the Edinburgh to Ayrshire road, which also goes to the large town of Livingston 7 miles to the east. It is situated at the junction of the A706, to...
Harperrig Reservoir
Harperrig Reservoir is a reservoir in West Lothian, Scotland, UK, to the west of the Pentland Hills, four miles south of Mid Calder. The Water of Leith flows through it, and nearby are Eliburn and Cobbinshaw Reservoirs.
