Whitecross
Whitecross is a small village within the Falkirk council area, close to the boundary of West Lothian council in Scotland. It lies 2.0 miles west-southwest of Linlithgow and 2.5 miles south-east of Polmont on the west bank of the River Avon.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Greg Fitchett, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village with 762 residents
- Description: village in Falkirk, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Whitecross, Falkirk”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Manuel Junction and Avon Aqueduct.
Manuel Junction
Railway station
Manuel Junction is a railway junction near the village of Whitecross, Falkirk, Scotland. It is the terminus of the Bo'ness and Kinneil Railway and forms a connection between it and the Glasgow–Edinburgh via Falkirk line.
Avon Aqueduct
Bridge
Photo: Eileen Henderson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Avon Aqueduct is a navigable aqueduct that carries the Union Canal over the River Avon, near Linlithgow, Scotland.
Almond Castle
Castle
Photo: Rob Burke, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Almond Castle is a ruined L-plan castle dating from the 15th century. It is located 3 miles west of Linlithgow, and north of the Union Canal, in Falkirk, Scotland.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Maddiston and Linlithgow.
Maddiston
Village
Photo: Richard Webb, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Maddiston is a village in the Falkirk council area of Scotland. It lies 3.8 miles west-southwest of Linlithgow, 1.3 miles south of Polmont and 0.6 miles south-east of Rumford at the south-east edge of the Falkirk urban area. Maddiston is situated 2 miles west of Whitecross.
Linlithgow
Photo: Xenophule, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Linlithgow is a small town in The Lothians in central lowland Scotland, 20 miles west of Edinburgh. It's a commuter town for the city, with a population in 2020 of 12,840.
Rumford
Village
Photo: M J Richardson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Rumford is a small village between Maddiston and Brightons in the Falkirk council area, of Scotland. The village went through a great deal of expansion in the late 1990s and early 2000s, resulting in the population increasing exponentially since the 1991 census, when it was recorded as around 275 residents. Rumford is situated 2 miles west of Whitecross.
Whitecross
- Category: locality
- Location: Falkirk, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.97383° or 55° 58′ 26″ northLongitude
-3.65409° or 3° 39′ 15″ westPopulation
762Elevation
194 feet (59 metres)Open location code
9C7RX8FW+G9OpenStreetMap ID
node 321004525OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
11592276Wikidata ID
Q7995824
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Whitecross” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Whitecross”
- Dutch: “Whitecross”
- French: “Whitecross (Falkirk)”
- French: “Whitecross”
- German: “Whitecross”
- Irish: “Fionn-Chrois”
- Spanish: “Whitecross”
- Swedish: “Whitecross”
- Welsh: “Whitecross”
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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 “Whitecross”. Photo: Greg Fitchett, CC BY-SA 2.0.