Tradespeople in Armadale, West Lothian

About Armadale

Armadale is a former mining town in West Lothian, spread across a hillside between Bathgate and the North Lanarkshire boundary.

It has a railway station on the Bathgate line with direct services to Edinburgh, making it a functional base for commuters who want to stay outside the city.

The town has a strong community identity shaped by its industrial heritage, with local schools, shops and sports facilities serving the resident population.

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About West Lothian

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West Lothian is a council area in the heart of the central belt, sitting between Edinburgh to the east, Falkirk to the north and North Lanarkshire to the west.

It is a county of contrasts: historic royal burghs like Linlithgow and ancient villages like Torphichen sit alongside the new town of Livingston and the former mining and shale oil communities that shaped the landscape in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Livingston is the county's main centre - Scotland's fifth-largest settlement - but West Lothian's character is defined as much by its smaller towns: Bathgate, Broxburn, Whitburn and Linlithgow each have their own distinct identity.

The oil shale industry, pioneered here in the 1850s by James Young, left a lasting mark on the landscape in the form of distinctive pink bings - the waste heaps of the shale works - that have become recognised landmarks in their own right.

West Lothian has excellent transport connections, with the M8 and M9 crossing the county, two rail lines linking it to Edinburgh and Glasgow and Edinburgh Airport on its eastern edge.