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55.85199°N 3.56854°W. / 55.85199; -3.56854. West Calder ( Scots: Wast Cauder, Scottish Gaelic: Caladar an Iar) is a village in the council area of West Lothian, Scotland, located four miles west of Livingston. Historically it is within the County of Midlothian. The village was an important centre in the oil shale industry in the 19th and 20th ...
1851: Population of the parish was 2120; the number of houses in the area being 379. 1860: 19 August; John Kane, the artist who painted primitivist scenes of Pittsburgh and memories of Scotland, is born. 1868: The Waterhouse opened by 'Miss Young of Limefield'. 1870: The White star Cricket Club was formed.
West Calder High School. / 55.8537000°N 3.559556°W / 55.8537000; -3.559556. West Calder High School is a secondary school in West Calder, West Lothian, Scotland. The current school building was officially opened in 2018 by former Prime Minister Gordon Brown, the UN's Special Envoy for Global Education.
Burngrange mining disaster. Coordinates: 55.848°N 3.582°W. Memorial in West Calder. Burngrange is an area of the Scottish village West Calder. Situated at the far west of the village it mainly consists of housing constructed for the areas mining industry in the early 20th century. On 10 January 1947, Burngrange was witness to its worst ...
Castle Greg. Location in Scotland West Lothian. Coordinates. 55°49′10″N 3°34′05″W / . 55.819444°N 3.568056°W. / 55.819444; -3.568056. Grid reference. NT0559. Castle Greg is the archaeological remains of a Roman fortlet in Harburn on the Camilty Plantation, approximately three miles south-east of West Calder, West Lothian, in ...
2022–23. East of Scotland League Third Division, 4th of 10. Home colours. Away colours. West Calder United Football Club are a Scottish football club based in West Calder, West Lothian. [1] Their home ground is Hermand Park, West Calder. Club colours are red and black. [2]
Calder House is located within the historical barony of Calder, adjacent the Kirk of Calder. Known as Calder Comitis, meaning "Earl's Calder", this covered the lands of Mid and West Calder which were originally possession of the Thanes (Earls) of Fife, the Douglas family. In 1348, upon the marriage of Eleanor Douglas, daughter of Sir Archibald ...
West Calder was a Scottish senior football club from the town of West Calder, Midlothian. History [ edit ] The club was founded in 1878 [1] and entered the Edinburgh Cup in 1879–80 for the first time.