List of places in West Lothian - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

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Town

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Village

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Hamlet

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Castle

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Golf course

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Historic house

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Lighthouse

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Nature reserve

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Reservoir

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River

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West Lothian

West Lothian is one of the 32 unitary council areas in Scotland, and a Lieutenancy area. It borders the City of Edinburgh, Falkirk, North Lanarkshire, the Scottish Borders and South Lanarkshire....

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Scotland

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Abercorn Church
Almondell and Calderwood Country Park
Almond Valley Heritage Centre
Almond Valley Railway Viaduct
Armadale, West Lothian
Armadale, West Lothian
Armadale is a town within the district of West Lothian in central Scotland.Armadale, formerly known as Barbauchlaw, is an ex-mining town which is also known for its brick manufacturing...
Auldcathie

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Bangour Village church
Bathgate
Bathgate
Bathgate is a town in West Lothian, Scotland, on the M8 motorway west of Livingston. Nearby towns are Blackburn, Armadale, Whitburn, Livingston, and Linlithgow. Edinburgh Airport is away...
Beecraigs Country Park, Beecraigs Sawmill
Beecraigs Prehistoric Site
Bellsquarry
Bellsquarry
Bellsquarry is a small area in the south of Livingston next to Murieston, Scotland. Like Livingston Village and Livingston Station it became part of Livingston when the town was built in 1962. Bellsquarry still has a village hall and old buildings, however, there are no shops. The area has several...
Bennie Museum
Blackburn, West Lothian
Blackburn, West Lothian
Blackburn is a town in West Lothian, Scotland next to Bathgate and five miles from Livingston. It is situated about from Edinburgh along the old A8 road between Edinburgh and Glasgow.- History :...
Bowden Prehistoric Hillfort
Broxburn
Broxburn, West Lothian
Broxburn is a town in West Lothian, Scotland located west of Edinburgh on the A8 road. It is situated approximately from Edinburgh Airport, and to the north of Livingston....

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Cairnpapple
Castle Greg
Castle Greg
Castle Greg is the archaeological remains of a Roman fortlet near Camilty Plantation, approximately three miles south-east of West Calder, West Lothian, in Scotland.The site is less than an acre in size, and lies just off the B7008...
Castlethorn Prehistoric Hillfort
Cockleroy Prehistoric Hillfort

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East Calder
East Calder
East Calder is a small town located in West Lothian, Scotland. It is located about a mile east of Mid Calder and about a mile west of Wilkieston...
East Kirkton Quarry
East Kirkton Quarry
East Kirkton Quarry is a former limestone quarry, now better known as a fossil site known for terrestrial fossils from the fossil-poor "Romer's gap, a 15 million year period at the beginning of the Carboniferous...

fossil site
Ecclesmachan
Ecclesmachan
Ecclesmachan is a village in West Lothian. It lies just north of Uphall on the B8046 road. As at 2001, the population of the civil parish of Ecclesmachan was 529 and was 811 in 1991....
Eliburn
Eliburn
Eliburn is one of the newest parts of Livingston, West Lothian, Scotland and is located to the North-West side of the town. The area has mostly private housing rather than council housing, though Eliburn is under constant development with the building of both affordable council apartments and...

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Eliburn Reservoir
Eliburn Reservoir is a reservoir in Eliburn, Livingston, West Lothian, Scotland.It is a coarse fishery and is stocked with Common carp, Rudd, Perch, Crucian carp, Ide or Golden Orfe, Roach and a pair of wels catfish. Fishing competitions are held there...

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Linlithgow
Linlithgow
Linlithgow is a Royal Burgh in West Lothian, Scotland. An ancient town, it lies south of its two most prominent landmarks: Linlithgow Palace and Linlithgow Loch, and north of the Union Canal....
Linlithgow Palace
Linlithgow Palace
The ruins of Linlithgow Palace are situated in the town of Linlithgow, West Lothian, Scotland, west of Edinburgh. The palace was one of the principal residences of the monarchs of Scotland in the 15th and 16th centuries. Although maintained after Scotland's monarchs left for England in 1603, the...
Linlithgow Marches
Linlithgow Union Canal Society
Linlithgow Union Canal Society
The Linlithgow Union Canal Society is a waterway society and a Scottish registered charity based at Linlithgow Canal Centre on the Union Canal at Linlithgow, West Lothian, Scotland...

at Linlithgow Canal Centre
Livingston
Livingston, Scotland
Livingston is a town in West Lothian, Scotland. It is the fourth post-WWII new town to be built in Scotland, designated in 1962. It is about 15 miles west of Edinburgh and 30 miles east of Glasgow, and is bordered by the towns of Broxburn to the northeast and Bathgate to the northwest.Livingston...

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Almond Valley Railway Viaduct
River Avon
River Avon, Falkirk
The River Avon is a river in Falkirk, Scotland. It originates near Cumbernauld, flows through Avonbridge, through the Avon Gorge, through Muiravonside Country Park, Falkirk, past the west of Linlithgow and enters the Firth of Forth near Grangemouth....

Heritage Trail
River Forth
River Forth
The River Forth , long, is the major river draining the eastern part of the central belt of Scotland.The Forth rises in Loch Ard in the Trossachs, a mountainous area some west of Stirling...

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