Linlithgow
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Linlithgow railway station and St Michael’s Parish Church.
Linlithgow railway station
Railway station
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Linlithgow railway station is a railway station serving the town of Linlithgow in West Lothian, Scotland. It is located on the Glasgow to Edinburgh via Falkirk Line, and is also served by ScotRail services from Edinburgh Waverley to Dunblane.
St Michael’s Parish Church
Church
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St Michael's Parish Church is one of the largest burgh churches in the Church of Scotland. In 2024, it united with St Ninian's Craigmailen, Torphichen Kirk and Avonbridge Church to create the new Linlithgow and Avon Valley Church.
St Michael’s Hospital
Hospital
Photo: Tom Sargent, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Michael's Hospital, Linlithgow was a community hospital in Linlithgow, Scotland, operated by NHS Lothian.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Whitecross and Kingscavil.
Whitecross
Village
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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.
Kingscavil
Hamlet
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Kingscavil is a small settlement in West Lothian lying between Linlithgow and Bridgend on the old A9.
Champany
Hamlet
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Champany is a hamlet in Falkirk, on the junctions of the A904 and A803 roads between Bo'ness and Linlithgow, West Lothian, Scotland.
Linlithgow
- Type: Town with 12,500 residents
- Description: town and Royal Burgh in West Lothian, Scotland, UK
- Categories: small burgh and locality
- Location: West Lothian, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.9772° or 55° 58′ 38″ northLongitude
-3.6006° or 3° 36′ 2″ westPopulation
12,500Elevation
164 feet (50 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB LLWOpen location code
9C7RX9GX+VQOpenStreetMap ID
node 26517086OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Welsh—“Linlithgow” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Լինլիթգոու”
- Asturian: “Linlithgow”
- Basque: “Linlithgow”
- Belarusian: “Лінлінтгоў”
- Belarusian: “Лінлітгау”
- Bengali: “লিনিলিথগো”
- Breton: “Gleann Iucha”
- Breton: “Linlithgow”
- Catalan: “Linlithgow”
- Cebuano: “Linlithgow”
- Chinese: “林利斯哥”
- Chinese: “林利斯戈”
- Czech: “Linlithgow”
- Danish: “Linlithgow”
- Dutch: “Linlithgow”
- Esperanto: “Linlithgow”
- Finnish: “Linlithgow”
- French: “Linlithgow”
- Galician: “Gleann Iucha”
- Galician: “Linlithgow”
- Georgian: “ლინლითგოუ”
- German: “Linlithgow”
- Greek: “Λινλιθγκόου”
- Gujarati: “લિન્લિથગો”
- Hebrew: “לינלית’גו”
- Hindi: “लिन्लिथगो”
- Hungarian: “Linlithgow”
- Irish: “Gleann Iucha”
- Italian: “Linlithgow”
- Japanese: “リンリスゴー”
- Kannada: “ಲಿನ್ಲಿತ್ಗೋ”
- Kazakh: “Линлитгоу”
- Korean: “린리스고”
- Lithuanian: “Linlitgou”
- Macedonian: “Линлитгоу”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Linlithgow”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Linlithgow”
- Persian: “لینلیتگو”
- Polish: “Linlithgow”
- Portuguese: “Linlithgow”
- Romanian: “Linlithgow”
- Russian: “Линлитгоу”
- Scots: “Linlithgow”
- Scots: “Lithgae”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Gleann Iucha”
- Silesian: “Linlithgow”
- Slovak: “Linlithgow”
- South Azerbaijani: “لینلیتقو”
- Spanish: “Linlithgow”
- Swedish: “Linlithgow”
- Tamil: “லிஙளித்கௌ”
- Telugu: “లిన్లిత్గౌ”
- Ukrainian: “Лінлітґов”
- Ukrainian: “Лінлітгоу”
- Urdu: “لینلیتھجوو”
- Welsh: “Linlithgow”
- “Gleann Iucha”
- “Linlithgow”
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