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Winchburgh

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Winchburgh Village is a village in the Council area of West Lothian, Scotland. [1]

58 relations: Apartment, Association football, Battle of Bannockburn, Boat, Bridge 19-40 Canal Society, Broxburn, Carlisle United F.C., Celtic F.C., Community centre, Convenience store, Cottage, Dunbar, Dundee F.C., Edinburgh, Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, Education in Scotland, Edward II of England, Falkirk, Firth of Forth, Forth and Clyde Canal, General practitioner, George Seton, 7th Lord Seton, Glasgow, Glenn Hoddle, Golf course, House, James Douglas, Lord of Douglas, John Barbour (poet), John Gibb (engineer), Kirkliston, Linlithgow, Linlithgow (Scottish Parliament constituency), Linlithgow Academy, List of places in West Lothian, Livingston (UK Parliament constituency), Livingston, West Lothian, Loch Leven Castle, Mary, Queen of Scots, Milton Keynes Dons F.C., Niddry Castle, North British Railway, Oil shale, Partick Thistle F.C., Pharmacy, Post Office Ltd, Preschool, Public housing, Rangers F.C., Roman Catholic (term), School, ..., Secondary school, South Queensferry, Subdivisions of Scotland, The Brus, Tottenham Hotspur F.C., Union Canal (Scotland), West Lothian, Willie Thornton. Expand index (8 more) »

Apartment

An apartment (American English), flat (British English) or unit (Australian English) is a self-contained housing unit (a type of residential real estate) that occupies only part of a building, generally on a single storey.

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Association football

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball.

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Battle of Bannockburn

The Battle of Bannockburn (Blàr Allt nam Bànag or Blàr Allt a' Bhonnaich) 24 June 1314 was a significant Scottish victory in the First War of Scottish Independence, and a landmark in Scottish history.

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Boat

A boat is a watercraft of a large range of type and size.

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Bridge 19-40 Canal Society

The Bridge 19-40 Canal Society is a Scottish waterway society and registered charity operating community boats on the Union Canal, with bases at Winchburgh and Drumshoreland, West Lothian.

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Broxburn

Broxburn (Srath Bhroch) is a town in West Lothian, Scotland located west of Edinburgh on the A8 road, from Edinburgh Airport, and to the north of Livingston.

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Carlisle United F.C.

Carlisle United Football Club is a professional association football club based in Carlisle, Cumbria, where they play at Brunton Park.

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Celtic F.C.

The Celtic Football Club is a professional football club based in Glasgow, Scotland, which plays in the Scottish Premiership.

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Community centre

Community centres or community centers are public locations where members of a community tend to gather for group activities, social support, public information, and other purposes.

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Convenience store

A convenience store or convenience shop is a small retail business that stocks a range of everyday items such as groceries, snack foods, confectionery, soft drinks, tobacco products, over-the-counter drugs, toiletries, newspapers, and magazines.

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Cottage

A cottage is, typically, a small house.

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Dunbar

Dunbar is a coastal town in East Lothian on the south-east coast of Scotland, approximately east of Edinburgh and from the English border north of Berwick-upon-Tweed.

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Dundee F.C.

Dundee Football Club is a professional football club based in the city of Dundee, Scotland.

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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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Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway

The Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway was authorised by Act of Parliament on 4 July 1838.

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Education in Scotland

Education in Scotland is overseen by the Scottish Government and has a history of universal provision of public education, and the Scottish education system is distinctly different from those in the other countries of the United Kingdom.

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Edward II of England

Edward II (25 April 1284 – 21 September 1327), also called Edward of Carnarvon, was King of England from 1307 until he was deposed in January 1327.

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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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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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Forth and Clyde Canal

The Forth and Clyde Canal is a canal opened in 1790, crossing central Scotland; it provided a route for the seagoing vessels of the day between the Firth of Forth and the Firth of Clyde at the narrowest part of the Scottish Lowlands.

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General practitioner

In the medical profession, a general practitioner (GP) is a medical doctor who treats acute and chronic illnesses and provides preventive care and health education to patients.

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George Seton, 7th Lord Seton

George Seton V, 7th Lord Seton (1531–1586) was a Lord of the Parliament of Scotland, Master of the Household of Mary, Queen of Scots and Provost of Edinburgh.

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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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Glenn Hoddle

Glenn Hoddle (born 27 October 1957) is an English former footballer and manager and current television pundit and commentator for ITV Sport and BT Sport.

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Golf course

A golf course is the grounds where the game of golf is played.

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House

A house is a building that functions as a home.

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James Douglas, Lord of Douglas

Sir James Douglas (also known as Good Sir James and the Black Douglas) (c. 1289A. A. M. Duncan, « Douglas, Sir James (d. 1330) », Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004. – 25 August 1330) was a Scottish knight and feudal lord.

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John Barbour (poet)

John Barbour (c.1320 – 13 March 1395) was a Scottish poet and the first major named literary figure to write in Scots.

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John Gibb (engineer)

John Gibb (1776–1850) was a Scottish civil engineer and contractor whose work included the construction of harbours, bridges, roads, lighthouses, and railways in the United Kingdom, primarily in Scotland.

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Kirkliston

Kirkliston is a small town and parish to the west of Edinburgh, Scotland, historically within the county of West Lothian.

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Linlithgow

Linlithgow (Gleann Iucha, Lithgae) is a town in West Lothian, Scotland.

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Linlithgow (Scottish Parliament constituency)

Linlithgow is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood).

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Linlithgow Academy

Linlithgow Academy is the only secondary school in Linlithgow, West Lothian.

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List of places in West Lothian

This List of places in West Lothian 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 West Lothian council area of Scotland.

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Livingston (UK Parliament constituency)

Livingston is a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, to which it returns one Member of Parliament (MP).

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Livingston, West Lothian

Livingston (Leivinstoun, Baile Dhùn Lèibhe) is the largest town in West Lothian, Scotland.

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Loch Leven Castle

Loch Leven Castle is a ruined castle on an island in Loch Leven, in the Perth and Kinross local authority area of Scotland.

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Mary, Queen of Scots

Mary, Queen of Scots (8 December 1542 – 8 February 1587), also known as Mary Stuart or Mary I, reigned over Scotland from 14 December 1542 to 24 July 1567.

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Milton Keynes Dons F.C.

Milton Keynes Dons Football Club (usually abbreviated to MK Dons) is a professional association football club in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England, founded in 2004, following Wimbledon F.C.'s controversial relocation to Milton Keynes from south London, when it adopted its present name, badge and home colours.

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Niddry Castle

Niddry Castle is a sixteenth-century tower house near Winchburgh, West Lothian, Scotland.

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North British Railway

The North British Railway was a British railway company, based in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Oil shale

Oil shale is an organic-rich fine-grained sedimentary rock containing kerogen (a solid mixture of organic chemical compounds) from which liquid hydrocarbons, called shale oil (not to be confused with tight oil—crude oil occurring naturally in shales), can be produced.

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Partick Thistle F.C.

Partick Thistle Football Club (nicknamed the Jags) are a professional football club from Glasgow, Scotland.

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Pharmacy

Pharmacy is the science and technique of preparing and dispensing drugs.

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Post Office Ltd

Post Office Ltd (Swyddfa’r Post Cyf.; Oifis a' Phuist) is a retail post office company in the United Kingdom that provides a wide range of products including postage stamps and banking to the public through its nationwide network of post office branches.

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Preschool

A preschool, also known as nursery school, pre-primary school, playschool or kindergarten, is an educational establishment or learning space offering early childhood education to children before they begin compulsory education at primary school.

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Public housing

Public housing is a form of housing tenure in which the property is owned by a government authority, which may be central or local.

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Rangers F.C.

Rangers Football Club are a football club in Glasgow, Scotland, who play in the Scottish Premiership, the first tier of the Scottish Professional Football League.

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Roman Catholic (term)

Roman Catholic is a term sometimes used to differentiate members of the Catholic Church in full communion with the Pope in Rome from other Christians, especially those who also self-identify as "Catholic", such as Anglo-Catholics and Independent Catholics.

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School

A school is an institution designed to provide learning spaces and learning environments for the teaching of students (or "pupils") under the direction of teachers.

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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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South Queensferry

Queensferry, also called South Queensferry or simply "The Ferry", is a town to the west of Edinburgh, Scotland, traditionally a royal burgh of West Lothian.

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Subdivisions of Scotland

For local government purposes, Scotland is divided into 32 areas designated as "council areas", which are all governed by single-tier authorities designated as "councils".

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The Brus

The Brus, also known as The Bruce, is a long narrative poem, in Early Scots, of just under 14,000 octosyllabic lines composed by John Barbour which gives a historic and chivalric account of the actions of Robert the Bruce and the Black Douglas in the Scottish Wars of Independence during a period from the circumstances leading up the English invasion of 1296 through to Scotland's restored position in the years between the Truce of 1328 and the death of Thomas Randolph, Earl of Moray in 1332.

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Tottenham Hotspur F.C.

Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, commonly referred to simply as Tottenham or Spurs, is an English football club in Tottenham, London, England, that competes in the Premier League.

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Union Canal (Scotland)

The Union Canal, full name the Edinburgh and Glasgow Union Canal is a canal in Scotland, running from Falkirk to Edinburgh, constructed to bring minerals, especially coal, to the capital.

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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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Willie Thornton

William Thornton MM (3 March 1920 – 26 August 1991) was a Scottish footballer and manager.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winchburgh

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