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2 unusual facts about Whitburn, 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.

Thomas L. Johnston

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


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.

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".

Geology of Tyne and Wear

The 'Hebburn Dyke' is another microgabbro which runs ESE from Newcastle-upon-Tyne through Hebburn to the coast at Whitburn.

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.

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.

Rick Parfitt

However, in August 2006, after meeting 46 year old fitness instructor Lyndsay Whitburn, they married in a £40 ceremony in Gibraltar.

Sockburn Worm

The tale is said by many to be the inspiration for Lewis Carroll's poem Jabberwocky which he wrote while in Croft on Tees and Whitburn.

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.

Whitburn, South Tyneside

Not until 1866 was a road built over the sandunes to Fulwell, in northern Sunderland.

Williamson baronets

The family removed to County Durham as a consequence of marriage and from the 18th century the family seat was Whitburn Hall, near Sunderland ( the house was demolished in 1980).


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