Addiewell
Addiewell is a former mining village in the Scottish council area of West Lothian. Historically it lies within the County of Midlothian. A new prison, HMP Addiewell, opened in 2008.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Richard Webb, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Photo: Richard Webb, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village with 1,340 residents
- Description: village in West Lothian, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Tobar Adaidh”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Addiewell railway station and West Calder railway station.
Addiewell railway station
Railway station
Photo: Rosser1954, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Addiewell railway station is a railway station serving Addiewell in West Lothian, Scotland. It is located on the Shotts Line from Glasgow Central to Edinburgh Waverley via Shotts.
West Calder railway station
Railway station
Photo: Nigel Thompson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
West Calder railway station is a railway station serving the village of West Calder in West Lothian, Scotland. It is located on the Shotts Line, 17 miles west of Edinburgh Waverley on the way to Glasgow Central. West Calder railway station is situated 2 miles east of Addiewell.
Breich railway station
Railway station
Photo: Rosser1954, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Breich railway station is a rural railway station serving the village of Breich in West Lothian, Scotland. It is located on the Shotts Line, 21 miles west of Edinburgh Waverley towards Glasgow Central. Breich railway station is situated 2 miles southwest of Addiewell.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Stoneyburn and Blackburn.
Stoneyburn
Village
Photo: Richard Webb, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Stoneyburn is a village in West Lothian, Scotland. The village was the site of a large coalmine, since discontinued. Nearby towns include Bathgate, Whitburn, Addiewell and Blackburn.
Blackburn
Town
Photo: Richard Webb, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Blackburn is a town in West Lothian, Scotland, near both Bathgate and Livingston, two of the larger towns in the county. It is situated approximately 20 miles west of Edinburgh and 25 miles east of Glasgow on the old A8 road. Blackburn is situated 2 miles north of Addiewell.
Addiewell
- Category: locality
- Location: West Lothian, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.84346° or 55° 50′ 36″ northLongitude
-3.6211° or 3° 37′ 16″ westPopulation
1,340Elevation
627 feet (191 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB ADWOpen location code
9C7RR9VH+9HOpenStreetMap ID
node 535988126OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Swedish—“Addiewell” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Addiewell”
- Dutch: “Addiewell”
- Finnish: “Addiewell”
- French: “Addiewell”
- Irish: “Tobar Adaidh”
- Italian: “Addiewell”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Addiewell”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Addiewell”
- Norwegian: “Addiewell”
- Scots: “Aidieswall”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Addiewell”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Tobar Adaidh”
- Spanish: “Addiewell”
- Swedish: “Addiewell”
- “Addiewell”
- “Addiewell - Tobar Adaidh”
- “Tobar Adaidh”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Loganlea Miners Club & Addiewell Pitstop and Addiewell and Loganlea Memorial Garden.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Addiewell”. Photo: Richard Webb, CC BY-SA 2.0.