Woodmuir & Blinkbonny
Dedridge Rows
Burngrange
Cappers
Woodend
Mossend
Oakbank – West Lothian’s Prosperous Company Village
Oakbank – A Prosperous Company Village Oakbank was constructed in 1864 to house the workers of the Shale boom in the surrounding area.. The largest of the lost villages, It reached a population of over 1,000, supported by 165 houses in 1917. It boasted an aerial ropeway that transported shale from the Dedridge mine and […]
Gavieside – The Village That Vanished without a Trace
Gavieside – The Village That Vanished Without a Trace
Seafield
On the Western edges of Red West Lothian, just before it meets the Black, up on the ridge that overlooks the Almond valley, sits the little village of Seafield. Seafield This was a village that was initially built as One of West Lothians many ‘Company Villages’ of Miners Rows. These were usually One or Two […]