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unusual facts about River Almond, Lothian



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.

Archerfield

Archerfield Estate and Links, a country estate and pair of golf courses in East Lothian, Scotland

Baldred

Saint Baldred of Tyninghame (or Baldred of Strathclyde), Anglo-Saxon hermit and abbot, resident in East Lothian during the 8th century

Balerno

Red Moss is one of only four raised bogs of sphagnum moss surviving in the Lothian region and a Site of Special Scientific Interest.

Bathvillite

It is an amorphous, opaque, and very friable material of fawn-brown color, filling cavities in the torbanite or Boghead coal of Bathville, Lothian, Scotland.

Battle of Old Byland

In all of Lothian the English are said only to have found one lame cow, causing the Earl of Surrey to remark; This is the dearest beef I ever saw. It surely has cost a thousand pounds and more! In the Scalicronica, Sir Thomas Gray describes the whole campaign thus;

Berwick High School

North Berwick High School, a public high school in North Berwick, East Lothian, Scotland, UK

Blickling homilies

Then in 1724 the officials in Lincoln gave the manuscript to William Pownall, who in turn sold it to Richard Ellys of Nocton, Lincolnshire who was an ancestor of the Marquess of Lothian.

Book of Aneirin

The most well known poem contained within its pages is Y Gododdin, an early Welsh-language poem commemorating the warriors from Gododdin (Lothian in modern Scotland) who fell at the Battle of Catraeth (probably Catterick in North Yorkshire) around the year 600.

Burntisland Shipyard Amateur F.C.

They joined the Lothian Amateur Football League, and in 1929 they were allowed to enter the Scottish Cup at the qualifying stages.

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

Fred McLeod

McLeod's mother was from Bolton in East Lothian and his father was from the Isle of Skye.

Geniscus

Geniscus is mentioned in the 1876 historical fiction Dante and Beatrice from 1282 to 1290: A Romance by Elizabeth Kerr Coulson, writing under the pseudonym Roxburghe Lothian.

Granville Gower Loch

Granville Gower Loch, born 28 February 1813, was second son of James Loch of Drylaw in Mid-Lothian; brother of George Loch and of Lord Henry Loch.

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).

History of Lothian Buses

Traditionally, Edinburgh Corporation, Lothian Regional Transport (LRT) and Lothian Buses had a livery of madder (a dark red) and cream (white), with matching madder leatherette seating.

After the purchase of Leyland Bus by Volvo, Lothian remained loyal to the Volvo Olympian chassis, taking 134 with Alexander RH and Royale type bodies between 1994 and 1997.

Inchcolm

This was the period of the Scottish Wars of Independence were in full swing, and decisive battles were being fought in the Lothians and in the Stirling/Bannockburn region, and so the island was effectively in the route of any supply or raiding vessels.

In the days when people were compelled to cross the Firth of Forth by boat as opposed to bridge, the island was a great deal less isolated, and on the ferry routes between Leith/Lothian and Fife.

Janet S. Owens

Janet S. Owens (born February 18, 1944, in Lothian, Maryland) is an American politician and Democrat who served as County Executive of Anne Arundel County, Maryland, for two terms, from 1998 until 2007.

John Kerr, 7th Marquess of Lothian

Lord Lothian married Lady Cecil Chetwynd-Talbot, daughter of Charles Chetwynd-Talbot, 2nd Earl Talbot, in 1831.

John Macdonald, Lord Kingsburgh

On 5 June 1901 he was appointed Honorary Colonel of the The Queen's Rifle Volunteer Brigade, the Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment).

Laudine

The name Laudine is generally associated with Lodonensis (or Laudonensis), a Latinized form of the toponym Lothian.

Lichfield Gospels

Interlaced bird patterns on the cross-carpet page on page 216 of the book strikingly resemble the ornament on a cross-shaft of Aberlady, Lothian, a Northumbrian site of the mid 8th century: the author/artist of the book and the sculptor of the cross-shaft ornament may have had similar source for their designs.

Lothian Schools Strathspey and Reel Society

In 1984 the group went to Munich representing the then Lothian Region in the celebrations which marked the 30th anniversary of the twinning of the two cities, Edinburgh and Munich.

Malise mac Gilleain

The right wing, composed of the men of Argyle, Lennox, Athole, and Galloway, was commanded by Alexander Stewart, 4th High Steward of Scotland, while Patrick III, Earl of Dunbar, commanded the left, composed of the men of Fife, Stirling, Berwick, and Lothian.

Maryland House of Delegates District 33B

Located in Anne Arundel County, the district includes the communities of Deale, Lothian, Davidsonville, Millersville, and Southern Anne Arundel County.

Musselburgh Athletic F.C.

They were members of the Lothian Junior League, but are presently competing in the East region of Scottish junior football, of which they, along with all Lothian junior clubs, became a part in 2002.

River Almond, Lothian

There is a good array of birds to be seen around the River banks, including Dippers, Kingfishers and Grey Herons, with increasing numbers of Otter being reported.

Shoebox Zoo

The series makes good use of its Lothian setting, with significant locations including the University of Edinburgh library, Tantallon Castle (Scot's home), Boroughmuir High School and St Giles Cathedral, while Toledo makes his base in the clock tower of the Balmoral Hotel.

Siege of Haddington

The Sieges of Haddington were a series of sieges staged at the Royal Burgh of Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland, as part of the War of the Rough Wooing one the last Anglo-Scottish Wars.

Stone Lud

The name of Ljot is very close to that of Lot or Loth, the mythic King of Orkney and Lothian in Arthurian legend, and in Celtic Myths and Legends (1912), Charles Squire identifies Lot as a late incarnation of a British god who is remembered in medieval Welsh legend as Lludd Llaw Eraint.

Thomas Fairfoul

Thomas Fairfoul (16 January 1881 in West Calder, Lothian – 1952) was a Scottish footballer who played as a right-half.

Thomas L. Johnston

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

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).

Waysons Corner, Maryland

Waysons Corner is five miles west of Lothian but hosts the current "Lothian" post office and is in the current Lothian postal zip code area.

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.

William Anstruther-Gray

William John St Clair Anstruther-Gray, Baron Kilmany (1905–1985), Scottish Unionist MP for Lanarkshire North, then Berwick & East Lothian

William Kerr, 3rd Marquess of Lothian

He succeeded to the Marquessate of Lothian in 1722 and was elected a representative peer in 1731, sitting in the House of Lords until 1761.


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