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unusual facts about Kirknewton, West Lothian



Balerno Community High School

The school stands on the banks of the Water of Leith, and serves children from the areas of Balerno, Kirknewton and Ratho, and also hosts pupils from a variety of areas outside the catchment area such as Currie, East Calder, Mid Calder and Edinburgh.

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.

Edinburgh Diamond Devils

Baseball has existed in the Edinburgh since the 1930s when it was played at United States air bases at Kirknewton and East Fortune.

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.

Kirknewton, Northumberland

Ann Katharine Swynford Lambton PhD FBA OBE (8 February 1912 – 19 July 2008), usually known as A.K.S. Lambton and locally as Nancy Lambton, was a British historian and leading figure on medieval and early modern Persian history, Persian language, Islamic political theory, and Persian social organisation.

Kirknewton, West Lothian

RAF Kirknewton, as it was known, was home to a variety of units during the war and, like many other military airfields, fell quiet afterwards.

The current house is a reworking of the original by the architect William Playfair for Alexander Maconochie, Lord Meadowbank in 1835.

The USAF left in 1966, and today Kirknewton airfield is home to a RAF(V) Gliding Unit, 661(RAF Kirknewton)VGS.

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.

RAF Kirknewton

From 1952 to 1966, Kirknewton was home to several small United States Air Force units tasked with providing mobile radio facilities in Britain.

River Glen, Northumberland

The College Burn and Bowmont Water, both flowing out of the Cheviot Hills, meet near Kirknewton to form the River Glen.

Thomas L. Johnston

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

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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