Addiewell
Addiewell is a former mining village in the Scottish council area of West Lothian.

Addiewell is a former mining village in the Scottish council area of West Lothian. Historically it lies within the County of Midlothian. A new prison, HMP Addiewell, opened in 2008.
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Worth seeing in and around Addiewell
2 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Blackburn House
Blackburn House is a category A-listed Georgian house, situated between Blackburn and Seafield near Bathgate in West Lothian, Scotland. The house comprises a compact central Palladian mansion house, with substantial east and west pavilions.
3.3 km · house east of Blackburn, West Lothian, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia - 02Five Sisters Zoo
Five Sisters Zoo is a privately owned zoological park located in Polbeth, West Calder. The zoo was founded by Brian and Shirley Curran and originally operated as an attraction within their garden centre on the same site.
3.8 km · British Zoo · Wikipedia
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Getting to Addiewell
- Airports
- Edinburgh (EDI), 19 km · Glasgow (GLA), 51 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 71 km
- Stations
- Addiewell railway station, 500 m · West Calder railway station, 3.1 km · Breich railway station, 3.9 km · Longridge railway station, 3.9 km
- Glasgow → Addiewell41 km · quickest by road, 55 min · £4–6
- Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Addiewell74 km · quickest by road, 1h 49m · £8–11
- Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Addiewell159 km · quickest by road, 3h 35m · £21–28
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Addiewell
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Addiewell. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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If you know how people move in Addiewell – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Addiewell
Addiewell is 29 km from Edinburgh, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Blackburntown in West Lothian, Scotland, United KIngdom3.1 km
- Stoneyburnvillage in West Lothian, Scotland, UK1.1 km
- West Caldertown in West Lothian, Scotland, UK2.9 km
- Seafieldvillage in West Lothian, Scotland, UK3.9 km
- Breichvillage in West Lothian, Scotland, UK3.1 km
- East Whitburnvillage in West Lothian, Scotland, UK3.9 km