Where is bathgate in scotland

Ideal for touring. Road and rail links to Edinburgh, Glasgow and Stirling. Linlithgow 3 miles. All ground-floor. Edinburgh 19 miles. Sign up to receive the very best of OS and its group of companies, straight to you by email. Site search. Download the free GetOutside app for family-friendly things to do outside. Privately owned hotel with a very popular restaurant and bar open to non-residents. The Premier Inn Bathgate offers comfort and convenience for both leisure and business travellers.

The Balbairdie Hotel has ten spacious en suite rooms, with a number of family rooms available on request. Smarhus Cottage offers high quality accommodation from which to explore central Scotland. Get the best recommendations delivered straight to your inbox!

Click the Subscribe button opens in new tab to receive our monthly newsletters. We use Benchmark to send emails to subscribers. If you do not want your email address and first name being stored by Benchmark for this purpose, please do not click subscribe. Accept Cookies. History At the foot of the scenic and historic Bathgate Hills, the town and its " bairns" a term used to denote the townspeople of Bathgate have played a significant part in our nation's history.

Things to do. Bathgate Cinema Bathgate Whether it's a family favourite, a fast-paced action or a classic comedy - there's a film to suit everyone's taste at Bathgate's brand new cinema attraction. Bathgate Hills Bathgate West Lothian has changed enormously over the last million years. Tailend Moss Bathgate Situated a mile south-east of Bathgate and close to Junction 3a on the M8, Tailend Moss is a lowland raised bog composed of deep peat.

Petershill Bathgate Situated on the north-east edge of Bathgate, Petershill was a limestone quarry in the 18th Century, converted to reservoirs in the 19th Century and drained in Bogburn Flood Lagoons Bathgate Located in Bathgate, Bogburn Flood Lagoons consists of three open freshwater pools surrounded by marshy grassland and swamp, a habitat favoured by wildfowl.

Dreadnought Rock Bathgate Dreadnought Rock is the place to be in West Lothian if you love your Rock Music or enjoy a great night out in a safe and relaxed environment! Balbardie Park Golf Course Bathgate Our 9 hole golf course, suited in Balbardie Park of Peace Xcite Bathgate, offers players an ideal course suitable for beginners as well experienced golfers.

Bathgate 28 miles Bathgate This challenging cycle tour, climbing into the Bathgate Hills, affords views of much of central Scotland including the Trossaches and Ben Lomond. Xcite Bathgate Bathgate Xcite Bathgate offers a great range of activities and facilities for all ages and abilities. Heritage Bathgate Heritage is located in the traditional town of Bathgate.

It also boasts a thriving night-life with plenty of popular pubs and entertainment on tap at the Regal Theatre or Chalmers entertainment venue. For the more active, there's fishing and golf on offer while the town makes a good base for walking in the Bathgate Hills. Here you'll discover Cairnpapple Hill whose 4,year-old burial ground is one of Scotland's most significant prehistoric sites.

West Lothian. The process produced crude oil, paraffin oil, paraffin wax, naptha, gas, coke, and ammonia: and it also produce a bright pink spent shale which was simply piled up in huge "bings", many of which still dot West Lothian today. By the late s, Bathgate was also home to a steelworks and was surrounded by coal mines.

The traditional industries reached their peak in the years around , but then went into rapid decline. What was left of the Bathgate Chemical Works Closed in Shale mining ended across West Lothian shortly after , and coal mining around Bathgate at about the same time. Meanwhile the passenger railway link to Edinburgh was closed in In an effort to tackle high levels of unemployment in the area in the early s, the Government of the day persuaded the British Motor Corporation to build their vast new truck and tractor plant in Bathgate.

In the s the plant employed over people. But it was always a very long way from its main markets and from its components suppliers, and a steady decline led to the closure of what was by then known as Leyland Trucks in In the same year the electronics company Plessey closed a plant in Bathgate, leaving the town with one of the highest unemployment rates in Britain. The story since has been a generally improving one, though not without some problems.