Dechmont

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Dechmont
West Lothian
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Humpbacked Bridge, Dechmont
Location
Grid reference: NT039708
Location: 55°55’16"N, 3°32’13"W
Data
Post town: Broxburn
Postcode: EH52
Dialling code: 01506
Local Government
Council: West Lothian
Parliamentary
constituency:
Livingston

Dechmont is a small village in West Lothian, located near Uphall.

It has an approximate population of 989 people. Bangour Village Hospital is here, just to the west of Dechmont, which accounts for a few more passing residents.

The village has a small infant/primary school providing learning for pre-school through to primary three pupils. In 2012 the school roll was just thirteen.

The village came to the attention of the fringe press in 1979 when a man claimed an alien encounter in the nearby Dechmont Woods.[1]

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