Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Crofthead

Crofthead, a large mineral village in Whitburn parish, SW Linlithgowshire, 31/8 miles S by W of Whitburn village, and 1¼ mile ENE of Crofthead station on the Morningside section of the North British, this being 6¾ miles SSW of Bathgate. It has itself a Free church and a public school; and it practically forms one with Fauldhouse and Greenburn villages, lying 1 mile WSW and ¾ mile SW. See Fauldhouse.


(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a large mineral village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Whitburn ScoP       West Lothian ScoCnty

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