The Mystery of Haddies Walls in the Bathgate Hills
The Mystery of Haddies Walls in the Bathgate hills near Torphichen in West Lothian, Scotland. EH48 If you’re travelling across the Bathgate Hills today on the road from Ballecrief Toll to Linlithgow, you’ll pass Haddies Walls. A small cluster of remnants of a former settlement that looks like it could have Once been a Medieval […]
Hilderston Farm on the Slopes of the Bathgate Hills
Hilderston Farm near Bathgate and Torphichen, EH48 Hilderston farm sits peacefully on the Wester Slopes of the Bathgate Hills in West Lothian. The pinnacle of the Central Lowland belt of Scotland and formerly known as the’ Hilderston Hills’. Hilderston Farm Not to be confused with the Hilderston further up into the Bathgate Hills where the […]
The Hilderston Silver Mine
High in the Bathgate Hills, right below the Hill of cairnpapple lies the old Hilderston Silver Mine that Once belonged to James the Sixth of Scotland and produced the silver that is in the Scottish Crown. But quickly became the Royal Embarrassment. The Hilderston Silver Mine The mine was established here in 1607 when a […]