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Borrowstounness (commonly known as Bo'ness) is a coastal parish in the Central Lowlands of Scotland. [1]

80 relations: Act of Parliament, Albert Bogle, Andrew Carnegie, Antonine Wall, Bede, Bo'ness and Kinneil Railway, Bo'ness Hill Climb, Bo'ness United F.C., Bridgeness Slab, Carriden House, Central Lowlands, Charles Clough (geologist), Christine Grant, Civil engineer, Coal mining, Edinburgh, Falkirk, Falkirk (council area), Falkirk East (Scottish Parliament constituency), Firth of Forth, Forecastle, George Baird (minister), George Denholm, George W. Easton, Glasgow, Grangemouth, Harcus Strachan, Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall, Henry Cadell, Hippodrome Cinema, Bo'ness, HMS Lagos (D44), HMS Liverpool (C11), HMS Scorpion (D64), HMS Wheatland, Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, Ineos, James Brunton Stephens, James Gardiner (British Army officer), James Hamilton, 1st Lord Hamilton, James Watt, Jo Gibb, John Begg, Kinneil House, Linlithgow and East Falkirk (UK Parliament constituency), List of places in Falkirk council area, Mansion, Margaret Kidd, Marina, Metalworking, Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, ..., Museum of Edinburgh, Newcomen atmospheric engine, Old English, Old Kilpatrick, Patrick Meik, Pictish language, Pottery, Primary school, Roman Empire, Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland, Salt evaporation pond, Scotland, Scottish Government, Scottish Junior Football Association, Seawater, Secondary school, Ship breaking, Shires of Scotland, Siltation, SS Belgenland (1914), SS Empire Advocate, SS Telefon, Steam engine, Stirling and Falkirk, Thomas Meik, United Kingdom census, 2001, USS Meade (DD-274), USS Ringgold (DD-89), West Lothian, William Young (Royal Navy officer, born 1761). Expand index (30 more) »

Act of Parliament

Acts of Parliament, also called primary legislation, are statutes passed by a parliament (legislature).

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Albert Bogle

Albert Orr Bogle (born 1949) is a minister of the Church of Scotland.

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Andrew Carnegie

Andrew Carnegie (but commonly or;MacKay, p. 29. November 25, 1835August 11, 1919) was a Scottish-American industrialist, business magnate, and philanthropist.

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Antonine Wall

The Antonine Wall, known to the Romans as Vallum Antonini, was a turf fortification on stone foundations, built by the Romans across what is now the Central Belt of Scotland, between the Firth of Forth and the Firth of Clyde.

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Bede

Bede (italic; 672/3 – 26 May 735), also known as Saint Bede, Venerable Bede, and Bede the Venerable (Bēda Venerābilis), was an English Benedictine monk at the monastery of St.

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Bo'ness and Kinneil Railway

The Bo’ness and Kinneil Railway is a heritage railway in Bo'ness, Scotland.

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Bo'ness Hill Climb

Bo'ness Hill Climb is a hillclimbing course near Bo'ness, Scotland, sometimes referred to as Kinneil Hill Climb.

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Bo'ness United F.C.

Bo'ness United Football Club is a Scottish football club, based in the town of Bo'ness.

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Bridgeness Slab

The Bridgeness Slab is a Roman distance slab created around 142 CE marking a portion of the Antonine Wall built by the Second Legion.

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Carriden House

Carriden House is a mansion in the parish of Bo'ness and Carriden, in the Falkirk council area, east central Scotland.

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Central Lowlands

The Central Lowlands or Midland Valley is a geologically defined area of relatively low-lying land in southern Scotland.

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Charles Clough (geologist)

Charles Thomas Clough MA, LLD, FGS, FRSE (23 December 1852 – 27 August 1916) was a prominent British geologist and mapmaker.

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Christine Grant

Christine Grant is a former athlete and athletic director at the University of Iowa.

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Civil engineer

A civil engineer is a person who practices civil engineering – the application of planning, designing, constructing, maintaining, and operating infrastructures while protecting the public and environmental health, as well as improving existing infrastructures that have been neglected.

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Coal mining

Coal mining is the process of extracting coal from the ground.

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Edinburgh

Edinburgh (Dùn Èideann; Edinburgh) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 council areas.

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Falkirk

Falkirk (The Fawkirk; An Eaglais Bhreac) is a large town in the Central Lowlands of Scotland, historically within the county of Stirlingshire.

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Falkirk (council area)

Falkirk is one of 32 unitary authority council areas of Scotland.

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Falkirk East (Scottish Parliament constituency)

Falkirk East is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood).

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Firth of Forth

The Firth of Forth (Linne Foirthe) is the estuary (firth) of several Scottish rivers including the River Forth.

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Forecastle

The forecastle (abbreviated fo'c'sle or fo'c's'le) is the upper deck of a sailing ship forward of the foremast, or the forward part of a ship with the sailors' living quarters.

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George Baird (minister)

Very Rev Prof George Husband Baird FRSE FSA (Scot) MWS (13 July 1761 – 14 January 1840) was a Scottish minister, educational reformer, linguist and the Principal of the University of Edinburgh from 1793 to 1840.

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George Denholm

Group Captain George Lovell "Uncle" Denholm, (20 December 1908 – 15 June 1997) was a fighter pilot and flying ace of the Royal Air Force during the Second World War.

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George W. Easton

George Wylie Easton (1883–1966) was a Scottish businessman, footballer and sportsperson.

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Glasgow

Glasgow (Glesga; Glaschu) is the largest city in Scotland, and third most populous in the United Kingdom.

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Grangemouth

Grangemouth is a town in east Stirlingshire and is part of the Falkirk council area, Scotland.

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Harcus Strachan

Henry Mareus "Harcus" Strachan (7 November 1884 – 1 May 1982) was a Scottish born Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for valour in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

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Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall

Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall (usually credited as H. E. Marshall; 9 August 1867 – 19 September 1941) was a British author, particularly well known for her works of popular national history for children.

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Henry Cadell

Dr Henry Moubray Cadell of Grange, DL FRSE LLD (1860 – 1934) was a Scottish geologist and geographer, noted for his work on the Moine Thrust, the oil-shale fields of West Lothian, and his experiments in mountain building published in 1888.

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Hippodrome Cinema, Bo'ness

The Hippodrome Cinema in Bo'ness near Falkirk is an early example of a purpose-built cinema and thought to be the oldest such building surviving in Scotland.

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HMS Lagos (D44)

HMS Lagos was a of the Royal Navy.

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HMS Liverpool (C11)

HMS Liverpool, named after the port city of Liverpool in north-west England, was a Town-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy in service from 1938 to 1952.

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HMS Scorpion (D64)

HMS Scorpion was a of the British Royal Navy in service from 1947 and scrapped in 1971.

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HMS Wheatland

HMS Wheatland was a Type 2 of the Royal Navy that served in the Second World War.

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Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery

The University of Glasgow's Hunterian is the oldest museum in Scotland.

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Ineos

INEOS is a privately owned multinational chemicals company headquartered in London, UK, and with registered offices in Lyndhurst, Hampshire, UK and London, United Kingdom.

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James Brunton Stephens

James Brunton Stephens (17 June 1835 – 29 June 1902) was a Scottish-born Australian poet, author of Convict Once.

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James Gardiner (British Army officer)

Colonel James Gardiner (11 January 168821 September 1745) was a Scottish soldier who fought in the British Army, including during the 1745 Jacobite rising.

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James Hamilton, 1st Lord Hamilton

James Hamilton, 1st Lord Hamilton, 6th Laird of Cadzow (c. 1415 – 6 November 1479) was a Scottish nobleman, scholar and politician.

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James Watt

James Watt (30 January 1736 (19 January 1736 OS) – 25 August 1819) was a Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist who improved on Thomas Newcomen's 1712 Newcomen steam engine with his Watt steam engine in 1781, which was fundamental to the changes brought by the Industrial Revolution in both his native Great Britain and the rest of the world.

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Jo Gibb

JoAnn Gibb (born 18 April 1976, in Bo'ness, Scotland, UK) is a Scottish theatre actress best known for her role of Rumpleteazer in the Cats video and as Pearl the Observation Car in Starlight Express.

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John Begg

John Begg, commonly known as Jack Begg, (20 September 1866 – 23 February 1937) was a Scottish architect, who practised in London, South Africa and India, before returning to Scotland to teach at Edinburgh College of Art from 1922-1933.

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Kinneil House

Kinneil House is a historic house to the west of Bo'ness in east-central Scotland.

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Linlithgow and East Falkirk (UK Parliament constituency)

Linlithgow and East Falkirk is a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, created for use in the 2005 general election.

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List of places in Falkirk council area

The article is a list of links for any town, village, hamlet, castle, golf course, historic house, hillfort, lighthouse, nature reserve, reservoir, river, and other place of interest in the Falkirk council area of Scotland.

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Mansion

A mansion is a large dwelling house.

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Margaret Kidd

Dame Margaret Henderson Kidd, Mrs MacDonald (14 March 1900 – 22 March 1989) was a Scottish legal advocate, editor and politician.

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Marina

A marina (from Spanish, Portuguese and Italian: marina, "coast" or "shore") is a dock or basin with moorings and supplies for yachts and small boats.

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Metalworking

Metalworking is the process of working with metals to create individual parts, assemblies, or large-scale structures.

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Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland

The Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland is the minister or elder chosen to moderate (chair) the annual General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, which is held for a week in Edinburgh every year.

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Museum of Edinburgh

The Museum of Edinburgh, formerly known as Huntly House Museum, is a museum in Edinburgh, Scotland, housing a collection relating to the town's origins, history and legends.

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Newcomen atmospheric engine

The atmospheric engine was invented by Thomas Newcomen in 1712, and is often referred to simply as a Newcomen engine.

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Old English

Old English (Ænglisc, Anglisc, Englisc), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest historical form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages.

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Old Kilpatrick

Old Kilpatrick (Auld Kilpaitrick, Cille Phàdraig meaning "Patrick's church"), is a village in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland.

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Patrick Meik

Patrick Walter Meik (1851 - 12 July 1910).

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Pictish language

Pictish is the extinct language, or dialect, spoken by the Picts, the people of eastern and northern Scotland from the late Iron Age to the Early Middle Ages.

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Pottery

Pottery is the ceramic material which makes up pottery wares, of which major types include earthenware, stoneware and porcelain.

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Primary school

A primary school (or elementary school in American English and often in Canadian English) is a school in which children receive primary or elementary education from the age of about seven to twelve, coming after preschool, infant school and before secondary school.

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Roman Empire

The Roman Empire (Imperium Rōmānum,; Koine and Medieval Greek: Βασιλεία τῶν Ῥωμαίων, tr.) was the post-Roman Republic period of the ancient Roman civilization, characterized by government headed by emperors and large territorial holdings around the Mediterranean Sea in Europe, Africa and Asia.

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Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland

The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS) was an executive non-departmental public body of the Scottish Government, which was "sponsored" through Historic Scotland, an executive agency of the Scottish Government.

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Salt evaporation pond

San Francisco Bay salt ponds salar'' is rich in lithium, and the mine concentrates the brine in the ponds Contemporary solar evaporation salt pans on the island of Lanzarote at Salinas de Janubio Solar evaporation ponds in the Atacama Desert Solar evaporation ponds in the Salt Valley of Añana, Spain Solar evaporation ponds in the Salt Valley of Añana, Spain A salt evaporation pond is a shallow artificial salt pan designed to extract salts from sea water or other brines.

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Scotland

Scotland (Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and covers the northern third of the island of Great Britain.

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Scottish Government

The Scottish Government (Riaghaltas na h-Alba; Scots Govrenment) is the executive of the devolved Scottish Parliament.

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Scottish Junior Football Association

The Scottish Junior Football Association (SJFA) is an affiliated national association of the Scottish Football Association and is the governing body for the junior grade of football in Scotland.

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Seawater

Seawater, or salt water, is water from a sea or ocean.

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Secondary school

A secondary school is both an organization that provides secondary education and the building where this takes place.

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Ship breaking

Ship breaking or ship demolition is a type of ship disposal involving the breaking up of ships for either a source of parts, which can be sold for re-use, or for the extraction of raw materials, chiefly scrap.

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Shires of Scotland

The counties or shires of Scotland (Siorrachdan na h-Alba) are geographic subdivisions of Scotland established in the Middle Ages.

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Siltation

Siltation or siltification is the pollution of water by particulate terrestrial clastic material, with a particle size dominated by silt or clay.

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SS Belgenland (1914)

The Belgenland was built in 1914 and originally served as a freighter and World War I troopship for the White Star Line under the name SS Belgic.

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SS Empire Advocate

SS Empire Advocate was a 5,787 ton steamship which was built in 1913 as the Solfels.

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SS Telefon

SS Telefon was a Norwegian cargo steamship of about built by on the River Tyne in 1900.

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Steam engine

A steam engine is a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid.

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Stirling and Falkirk

Stirling and Falkirk is a lieutenancy area of Scotland.

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Thomas Meik

Thomas Meik (–), Grace's Guide.

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United Kingdom census, 2001

A nationwide census, known as Census 2001, was conducted in the United Kingdom on Sunday, 29 April 2001.

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USS Meade (DD-274)

The first USS Meade (DD-274) was a in the United States Navy and transferred to the Royal Navy as HMS Ramsey (G60).

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USS Ringgold (DD-89)

USS Ringgold (DD-89) was a in the United States Navy during World War I and the interwar period.

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West Lothian

West Lothian (Wast Lowden, Lodainn an Iar) is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland, and one of its historic counties.

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William Young (Royal Navy officer, born 1761)

William Young (27 August 1761 – 11 February 1847) was an officer of the Royal Navy who saw service during the American War of Independence, and the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.He should not be confused with his namesake and near contemporary Vice Admiral William Young.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo'ness

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