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'''Borrowstoun''' is a village of [[West Lothian]] which has been swallowed up by its daughter village, so as to become barely a suburb of [[Bo'ness]].
 
'''Borrowstoun''' is a village of [[West Lothian]] which has been swallowed up by its daughter village, so as to become barely a suburb of [[Bo'ness]].
  
Borrowstoun was as village of longstanding, in the west of West Lothian, a little inland of the [[Firth of Forth]]. A port was established for the village on the firth, which for it position on a jut of land was named Borrowstounness:  in the early eighteenth century the port was observed by Daniel Defoe as being but a single, straggling street along the shore, but this street grew and Borrowstounness became a burgh of barony in 1748, and while its size grew its name shrank, to [[Bo'ness]].
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Borrowstoun was a village of longstanding, in the west of West Lothian, a little inland of the [[Firth of Forth]]. A port was established for the village on the firth, which for its position on a jut of land was named Borrowstounness:  in the early eighteenth century the port was observed by Daniel Defoe as being but a single, straggling street along the shore, but this street grew and Borrowstounness became a burgh of barony in 1748, and while its size grew its name shrank, to [[Bo'ness]].
  
 
Borrowstoun itself remained inland, a tiny place despite the roaring commercial trade developing at its seaport.
 
Borrowstoun itself remained inland, a tiny place despite the roaring commercial trade developing at its seaport.
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In 1868 the village was described:
 
In 1868 the village was described:
  
{{quote|BORROWSTOWN, a village in the parish of Borrowstounness, in the county of Linlithgow, Scotland, 2 miles to the N. of Linlithgow. It is situated on the coast of the Frith of Forth, and is a station on the Monkland railway.|National Gazetteer, 1868<ref>[http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/sct/WLN/Boness/Gaz1868 Borrowstounness entries in he National Gazetteer, 1868]</ref>}}
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{{quote|BORROWSTOWN, a village in the parish of Borrowstounness, in the county of Linlithgow, Scotland, 2 miles to the N. of Linlithgow. It is situated on the coast of the Frith of Forth, and is a station on the Monkland railway.|National Gazetteer, 1868<ref>[http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/sct/WLN/Boness/Gaz1868 Borrowstounness entries in the National Gazetteer, 1868]</ref>}}
  
 
==Outside links==
 
==Outside links==
*{{visionofbritain|1593670 Borrowstoun}}
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*[http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/descriptions/87770 Borrowstoun] on ''Vision of Britain''
  
 
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Latest revision as of 23:01, 29 July 2015

Borrowstoun
West Lothian
Location
Grid reference: NT000801
Location: 56°0’14"N, 3°36’17"W
Data
Postcode: EH51
Local Government
Council: Falkirk
Parliamentary
constituency:
Linlithgow and East Falkirk

Borrowstoun is a village of West Lothian which has been swallowed up by its daughter village, so as to become barely a suburb of Bo'ness.

Borrowstoun was a village of longstanding, in the west of West Lothian, a little inland of the Firth of Forth. A port was established for the village on the firth, which for its position on a jut of land was named Borrowstounness: in the early eighteenth century the port was observed by Daniel Defoe as being but a single, straggling street along the shore, but this street grew and Borrowstounness became a burgh of barony in 1748, and while its size grew its name shrank, to Bo'ness.

Borrowstoun itself remained inland, a tiny place despite the roaring commercial trade developing at its seaport.

In 1868 the village was described:

BORROWSTOWN, a village in the parish of Borrowstounness, in the county of Linlithgow, Scotland, 2 miles to the N. of Linlithgow. It is situated on the coast of the Frith of Forth, and is a station on the Monkland railway.
—National Gazetteer, 1868[1]

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