Borrowstoun

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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 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.

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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