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Bo'ness
Borrowstounness, commonly known as Bo'ness ( ), is a town and former burgh and seaport on the south bank of the Firth of Forth in the Central Lowlands of Scotland. Counties of Scotland, Historically part of the county of West Lothian (historic), West Lothian, it now lies within the Falkirk (council area), Falkirk council area, northwest of Edinburgh and east of Falkirk. At the 2011 United Kingdom census, 2011 census, the population of Bo'ness was 15,100. Until the 20th century, Bo'ness was the site of various industrial activities, including coal mining, saltmaking and pottery production. With its location beside the Forth, the town and its harbour grew in importance in the Industrial Revolution and later continued to grow into the Victorian era. Since the late 20th century, deindustrialisation has changed the nature of the town, with the coal mine closing in 1982 and the waterfront area now being primarily used for leisure purposes. However, some industry remains in the town i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Falkirk (council Area)
Falkirk ( ; ; ) is one of 32 unitary authority council areas of Scotland. It was formed on 1 April 1996 by way of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 from the exact boundaries of Falkirk Regions and districts of Scotland, District, one of three parts of the Central Region, Scotland, Central region created in 1975, which was abolished at that time. Prior to the 1975 reorganisation, the majority of the council area was part of the historic Counties of Scotland, county of Stirlingshire, and a small part, namely Bo'ness and Blackness, Falkirk, Blackness, was part of the former county of West Lothian. The council area borders with North Lanarkshire, Stirling (council area), Stirling and West Lothian, and, across the Firth of Forth to the northeast, Clackmannanshire and Fife. The largest town is Falkirk; other settlements, most of which surround Falkirk within of its centre, include Bo'ness, Bonnybridge, Denny, Falkirk, Denny, Grangemouth, Larbert, Polmont, Shieldhill, Fal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kinneil House
Kinneil House is a historic house to the west of Bo'ness in east-central Scotland. It was once the principal seat of the Duke of Hamilton, Hamilton family in the east of Scotland. The house was saved from demolition in 1936 when 16th-century mural paintings were discovered, and it is now in the care of Historic Environment Scotland. The house now consists of a symmetrical mansion built in 1677 on the remains of an earlier 16th- or 15th-century tower house, with two rows of gunloops for early cannon still visible. A smaller east wing, of the mid 16th century, contains the two painted rooms. The house is protected as a Category A listed building. It sits within a public park, which also incorporates a section of the Roman Antonine Wall and the only example of an Antonine Castellum, fortlet with visible remains. Early history The lands of Kinneil with Larbert and Auldcathy were given to Walter Fitz Gilbert, an ancestor of the Hamilton family, by Robert the Bruce in 1323. A charte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Museum Of Scottish Railways
The Museum of Scottish Railways is a railway museum operated by the Scottish Railway Preservation Society (SRPS). It is based on the SRPS's large collection of railway artefacts from across Scotland. The museum is located at the Bo'ness and Kinneil Railway, and is the largest building on site. It is the largest railway museum in Scotland, consisting of three large buildings which contain heritage locomotives, Railway coach, coaches, Railway wagon, wagons and other exhibits. Collections The Museum of Scottish Railways collection ranges from large locomotives, carriages, sleeping cars, wagons and signalling systems as well as smaller objects including oil cans, crockery, books and photographs. The core collection is a Recognised Collection of National Significance. Rolling stock Rolling stock collections are anything (such a locomotives or carriages) which move on rails. Locomotives Coaches Location The Museum of Scottish Railways is located behind Bo'ness Station ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bridgeness Slab
The Bridgeness Slab is a Roman distance slab created around 142 CE marking a portion of the Antonine Wall built by the Second Legion. It is regarded as the most detailed and best preserved of the Scottish distance slabs. The sandstone tablet was found at Bridgeness in Bo'ness, Scotland in 1868 on a promontory close to Harbour Road. The original is in the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh, while a replica is near the site of its discovery. History The slab was erected 142 CE to mark the completion of a section of the Antonine Wall. It was uncovered during excavations in 1868 on land owned by Henry Mowbray Cadell, whose son Dr Henry Cadell was an eyewitness of its discovery. Cadell offered it to the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland for display in the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh if they would provide a copy for display locally. The first on-site replica includes only the centre panel of the original. A second replica, including the side panels, was unveiled by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carriden House
Carriden House is a mansion in the parish of Bo'ness and Carriden, in the Falkirk council area, east central Scotland. It is located on the Antonine Wall east of Bo'ness, and north-east of Linlithgow, in the former county of West Lothian. The earliest part of the house is an early 17th-century tower house, which was extended in the 17th and 19th centuries. Carriden House is protected as a category A listed building. Etymology of name ''Carriden'' is etymologically a Cumbric name. The first element is agreed to be *''kair'' 'fortification'. The second element is more doubtful, but seems fairly likely to be the same regional name Eidyn that also appears in ''Edinburgh''. History Carriden House is located west of the site of an Antonine Roman fort. This formed the eastern end of the Antonine Wall. It is the only Antonine Fort whose Latin name, Veluniate, is known. A centurion's stone was reported as built into the house, according to Sir George Macdonald who wrote about it. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Lothian (historic)
West Lothian, also known as Linlithgowshire (its official name until 1925), is a historic county in the east central Lowlands of Scotland. until 1925. It is bounded geographically by the Avon to the west and the Almond to the east. It was reshaped significantly following local government reforms in 1975, becoming slightly larger but with major territorial changes: some areas in the north-west were transferred to Falkirk; areas in the north-east were transferred to Edinburgh; and some areas in the south that had formerly been part of Midlothian were added to a new West Lothian District within the Region of Lothian. This then became a standalone local authority area in the most recent major reorganisation enacted in 1996, retaining those same boundaries and name. The county town was the royal burgh of Linlithgow, but the current council area has its headquarters at Livingston, the development of which as a new town in the second half of the 20th century represents one of the ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonine Wall
The Antonine Wall () was a turf fortification on stone foundations, built by the Romans across what is now the Central Belt of Scotland, between the Firth of Clyde and the Firth of Forth. Built some twenty years after Hadrian's Wall to the south, and intended to supersede it, while it was garrisoned it was the northernmost frontier barrier of the Roman Empire. It spanned approximately and was about high and wide. Lidar scans have been carried out to establish the length of the wall and the Roman distance units used. Security was bolstered by a deep ditch on the northern side. It is thought that there was a wooden palisade on top of the turf. The barrier was the second of two "great walls" created by the Romans in Great Britain in the second century AD. Its ruins are less evident than those of the better-known and longer Hadrian's Wall to the south, primarily because the turf and wood wall has largely weathered away, unlike its stone-built southern predecessor. Construction be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Falkirk
Falkirk ( ; ; ) is a town in the Central Lowlands of Scotland, historically within the county of Stirlingshire. It lies in the Forth Valley, northwest of Edinburgh and northeast of Glasgow. Falkirk had a resident population of 32,422 at the 2001 United Kingdom census, 2001 UK Census. The population of the town had risen to 34,570 according to a 2008 estimate, making it the List of towns and cities in Scotland by population, 20th most populous settlement in Scotland. Falkirk is the main town and administrative centre of the Falkirk (council area), Falkirk council area, which has an overall population of 156,800 and inholds the nearby towns of Grangemouth, Bo'ness, Denny, Falkirk, Denny, Camelon, Larbert and Stenhousemuir, and the cluster of Falkirk Braes, Braes villages. The town is at the junction of the Forth and Clyde Canal, Forth and Clyde and Union Canal (Scotland), Union Canals, a location which proved key to its growth as a centre of heavy industry during the Industria ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bathgate And Linlithgow (UK Parliament Constituency)
Bathgate and Linlithgow is a List of UK Parliament constituencies, constituency of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons in the Parliament of the United Kingdom, UK Parliament. Further to the completion of the 2023 review of Westminster constituencies, it was first contested at the 2024 United Kingdom general election, 2024 general election, when it was won by Kirsteen Sullivan of the Labour Party (UK), Labour Party. The constituency name refers to the West Lothian towns of Bathgate and Linlithgow. Boundaries The constituency comprises the following: * In full: the Falkirk (council area), Falkirk Council ward of Bo'ness and Blackness (ward), Bo'ness and Blackness; and the West Lothian, West Lothian Council wards of Armadale and Blackridge (ward), Armadale and Blackridge, Bathgate (ward), Bathgate, Linlithgow (ward), Linlithgow, and Whitburn and Blackburn (ward), Whitburn and Blackburn * In part: the West Lothian council ward of Broxburn, Uphall and Winchbu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Firth Of Forth
The Firth of Forth () is a firth in Scotland, an inlet of the North Sea that separates Fife to its north and Lothian to its south. Further inland, it becomes the estuary of the River Forth and several other rivers. Name ''Firth'' is a cognate of ''fjord'', a Norse word meaning a narrow inlet. ''Forth'' stems from the name of the river; this is ('slow running') in Proto-Celtic, yielding in Old Gaelic and in Welsh. It was known as ' in Roman Empire, Roman times and was referred to as ' in Ptolemy's ''Geography_(Ptolemy), Geography''. In the Norse mythology, Norse sagas it was known as the . An early Welsh language, Welsh name is , or the 'sea of '. Geography and geology Geologically, the Firth of Forth is a fjord, formed by the Forth Glacier in the last glacial period. The drainage basin for the Firth of Forth covers a wide geographic area including places as far from the shore as Ben Lomond, Cumbernauld, Harthill, Scotland, Harthill, Penicuik and the edges of Gleneagles H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Falkirk East (Scottish Parliament Constituency)
Falkirk East (Gaelic: ''An Eaglais Bhreac an Ear'') is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament ( Holyrood) covering part of the council area of Falkirk. It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the plurality (first past the post) method of election. Also, however, it is one of nine constituencies in the Central Scotland electoral region, which elects seven additional members, in addition to nine constituency MSPs, to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole. The constituency was created at the same time as the Scottish Parliament, for the 1999 Scottish Parliament election. Ahead of the 2011 Scottish Parliament election the boundaries of the seat were reformed and reshaped. The seat has been held by Michelle Thomson of the Scottish National Party since the 2021 Scottish Parliament election. Electoral region The other eight constituencies of the Central Scotland region are: Airdrie and Shotts, Coatbridge and Chryston, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Old Kilpatrick
Old Kilpatrick (, meaning "Patrick's church"), is a village in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland. The name ''Old Kilpatrick'' is said to be derived from St. Patrick ostensibly being born here. It has an estimated population of 4,820. It belonged to the parish of Old Kilpatrick which itself was only a few thousand people strong. The Forth and Clyde Canal separates Old Kilpatrick from the north bank of the River Clyde which is just a few metres beyond it to the south. The village is about west of Clydebank, on the road west to Dumbarton where some say the river becomes the Firth of Clyde. The Great Western Road runs through the village whose immediate western neighbour, on the road and the canal, is Bowling, where the Forth and Clyde Canal meets the river. The modern A82 road runs to the north, between the village and the foot of the Kilpatrick Hills. In the 19th century it was described as being essentially a single street. It's possible the birthplace of Saint Patrick was near Old ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
