Bathville Homepage


Not so joyful as the song on a cold January afternoon. Garage on the edge of Armadale with a big queue of cars waiting to be washed.
©Richard Webb
Dist:0.2km<br/>Looking over Bathgate Road, Armadale towards some industrial units.
©Richard Webb
Dist:0.2km<br/>Shop in the eastern part of Armadale. Municipal housing estate built when there was a lot of heavy industry in the area.
©Richard Webb
Dist:0.5km<br/>View from the footpath towards the new housing estate at Mallace Avenue, Lower Bathville. Before the estate was built this area was a cornfield so the pool is as new as the houses, but very natural-looking and well-established.
©Claire M Jordan
Dist:0.6km<br/>Hairdressers and carryouts in Armadale.
©Richard Webb
Dist:0.6km<br/>The small standing stone was erected by the Boy Scouts during some kind of Millennium celebration, but I haven't been able to find out anything about the horseshoe-shaped earthwork. It definitely pre-dates the local housing estate, because it can be seen in aerial photographs taken before the houses were built. Somebody who has lived nearby for sixteen years told me it was there when he moved in. It doesn't seem to be a marker on top of a septic tank and it's too low and too small to be a sheep-fold, yet it's not marked on the OS map as an ancient monument either. Some kind of Victorian folly, possibly?
©Claire M Jordan
Dist:0.7km<br/>East Main Street, Armadale (A89). Taken while waiting to pull out of a residential side street. Note the yellow housebuilder's signs. West Lothian has the fastest growing population in any Scottish council area - building is slowing down now though.
©Richard Webb
Dist:0.7km<br/>Brownfield site with industrial units near the fireclay brickworks.
©Richard Webb
Dist:0.7km<br/>Packing up after lunch, a typical scene in any industrial estate.
©Richard Webb
Dist:0.8km<br/>Entering Armadale.
©Richard Webb
Dist:0.8km<br/>The missing link over the Avon Gorge is no nearer a reality.
©Jim Smillie
Dist:0.8km<br/>View along the Main thoroughfare in this West Lothian Town, Armadale was founded on Heavy Industry such as Coal Mining, Limestone Quarrying and Brick making, all of which are gone now, Today it is mainly a commuter town roughly midway between Edinburgh and Glasgow and is close to the M8 Motorway.
©Kevin Rae
Dist:0.8km<br/>Rough ground, grazed by cattle, on the edge of Bathgate.
©Richard Webb
Dist:0.9km<br/>
©Richard Webb
Dist:0.9km<br/>Eastward view from opposite the police station. The tower is on The Goth, a Gothenburg public house. Gothenburgs appeared in mining communities around the beginning of the 20th century. They were public houses operating as community and educational centres.
©Richard Webb

Creative Commons Licence [Some Rights Reserved]

Members Nearby

Bathville Discussion Forum


Places Near Bathville

Armadale • Avonbridge • Ballencrieff Toll • Barbauchlaw • Bathgate • Bathville • Belvedere • Bents • Blackburn • Blackridge • Blaeberryhill • Boghall • Croftmalloch • East Whitburn • Eastfield • Falside • Glenmavis • Greenrigg • Guildiehaugh • Harthill • Longridge • Mayfield • Paulville • Strathloanhead • Torphichen • Westfield • Westrigg • Whitburn • Whiteside • Windyknowe •