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Addiewell

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

Addiewell
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The place

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.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

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.

  1. 01
    Blackburn 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
  2. 02
    Five 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

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

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 → Addiewell
    41 km · quickest by road, 55 min · £4–6
  • Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Addiewell
    74 km · quickest by road, 1h 49m · £8–11
  • Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Addiewell
    159 km · quickest by road, 3h 35m · £21–28
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Not yet researched

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.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    100 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    112 km
  3. 03
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    139 km
  4. 04
    Isle of CollGB

    7 ways of moving, 16 sources

    203 km
  5. 05
    The Small Isles - Eigg, Muck, Rum and CannaGB

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    209 km

If you know how people move in Addiewell – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

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