West Lothian

West Lothian Council
Lodainn an Iar
West Lothian Council; Lodainn an Iar
Coat of arms of West Lothian Council Lodainn an Iar; Coat of arms	; Logo
Admin HQ	Livingston
	Government
• Body	West Lothian Council; http://www.westlothian.gov.uk/
• Control	Scottish National Party/Action to Save St John's Hospital/Conservative
• MPs	Michael Connarty; Jim Devine;
• MSPs	Angela Constance; Mary Mulligan;
	Area
• Total	Expression error: Unexpected < operator. sq mi (427 km² km2)
Area rank	Ranked 20th
	Population (2010 est.)
• Total	165,700
• Rank	Ranked 10th
• Density	1,000/sq mi (388/km2)
ONS code	00RH
ISO 3166 code	GB-WLN

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County of West Lothian

Geography
Area - Total	Ranked 32nd 76,806 acres
County town	Livingston
Chapman code	WLN

West Lothian (Lodainn an Iar in Gaelic) is one of the 32 unitary council areas in Scotland, and a Lieutenancy area. It borders onto City of Edinburgh, Scottish Borders, South Lanarkshire, North Lanarkshire and Falkirk.

The council area was created in 1996, under the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994, with the boundaries of the West Lothian district of the Lothian region.

Towns and villages[]

Principal Towns/Cities[]

Bathgate
Broxburn
Livingston
Linlithgow

Former status[]

County[]

The county of West Lothian was called Linlithgowshire or the County of Linlithgow until 1921.

As abolished in 1975 by the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973, the county contained six burghs. Two are outside the West Lothian unitary council area:

Burgh	Unitary council area
Armadale	West Lothian
Bathgate
Linlithgow
Whitburn
Bo'ness	Falkirk
South Queensferry	City of Edinburgh

On abolition in 1975 the county, with the exception of the Bo'ness area, was included in the Lothian Region. Bo'ness became part of the Central Region. Lothian Region was divided into four districts, one of which was named West Lothian and approximated to the former county.

District[]

West Lothian District was created in 1975, comprising the county of West Lothian; less the burghs of Bo'ness and South Queensferry and the Kirkliston and Winchburgh areas; it also included the East Calder and West Calder districts of the former county of Midlothian. The council's headquarters were originally in Bathgate, later moving to the new town of Livingston. The unitary authority created in 1996 used the same boundaries.

Places of interest[]

Blackness Castle
Linlithgow Palace, birth place of Mary Queen of Scots.
Cairnpapple Hill
Beecraigs Country Park

Mentions in popular culture[]

The West Lothian question is so named as it was raised by Tam Dalyell, then member of Parliament for the former West Lothian constituency, in his 1977 book Devolution: The End of Britain ?.

Council political composition[]

	Party	Councillors
	Labour	14
	Scottish National Party	13
	Action to Save St John's Hospital	3
	Conservative	1
	Independent	1

External links[]

55°55′N 3°30′W / 55.917, -3.5

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