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5 unusual facts about West Lothian


Clan Houston

The family also acquired a substantial barony near Whitburn, West Lothian, where Huston House, which was rebuilt in the eighteenth century, still stands today.

Freskin

Freskin's name appears only in a charter by King William to his son, William, granting Strathbrock in West Lothian and Duffus, Kintrae, and other lands in Moray, "which his father held in the time of King David".

Henry Erskine, 3rd Lord Cardross

In 1679 the king's forces in their march westwards went two miles out of their way to quarter on his estates of Kirkhill and Uphall, West Lothian.

Thomas L. Johnston

Thomas Lothian Johnston FRSE (9 March 1927 in Whitburn, West Lothian – 2009 in Edinburgh) was a Scottish economist.

West Lothian question

He illustrated his point by pointing out the absurdity of a member of parliament for West Lothian being able to vote on matters affecting the English town of Blackburn, Lancashire, but not Blackburn, West Lothian, in his own constituency.


Boghall and Bathgate Caledonia Pipe Band

In 1972, a few townspeople of Boghall in West Lothian decided that they would try to form a pipe band.

EaStMAN

EaStMAN connects universities and colleges to one another and to Janet in the Edinburgh, Stirling, West Lothian and Borders areas of Scotland.

Kirktonecta

The holotype was collected in the East Kirkton Quarry, near Bathgate of West Lothian, from "Bed 82" East Kirkton Limestone of the Bathgate Hills Volcanic Formation, dating to the Brigantian substage, of the late Viséan stage, of the Dinantian series (Early Carboniferous), about 333-328.3 million years ago.

West Calder Slave Trade Petition

The West Calder Slave Trade Petition was a 1792 petition, against the slave-trade, created in West Calder, West Lothian, Scotland.


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Alasdair Morgan

From 1980-4, he was a Systems Analyst at GE and a Computer Systems Team Leader at Fife Regional Council from 1984-6, moving to Lothian Regional Council in 1986, and West Lothian Council in 1996.

Chick Farr

Athletic were a West Lothian club playing in the Midlothian Junior League (the forerunner to today's East Region Junior League).

Deer Hill

Dechmont Law, a hill outside Livingston, West Lothian, Scotland

Harthill

Harthill, Scotland, on the border of North Lanarkshire and West Lothian

Hippolyte Blanc

Bangour Village Hospital, West Lothian, was a competition win in 1898, and he designed the former Bernard's Brewery buildings in Gorgie (1887).

Torphichen

Torphichen is part of the (UK) Falkirk East and Linlithgow Constituency (Michael Connarty, Labour); Scottish Linlithgow Constituency (Fiona Hyslop, Scottish National Party); and part of the Armadale and Blackridge Ward of West Lothian Council (Stuart Borrowman, Independent; Jim Dixon, Labour; and Isabel Hutton, Scottish National Party).