Dechmont
Dechmont is a small village located near Uphall, West Lothian in Scotland.
Dechmont is a small village located near Uphall, West Lothian in Scotland. Bangour Village Hospital is located to the west of Dechmont. Its postal code is EH52. An alleged alien encounter took place in 1979 in the nearby Dechmont Woods.
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Worth seeing in and around Dechmont
3 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.
- 01Almondvale Stadium
Almondvale Stadium, also known as the Home of the Set Fare Arena for sponsorship purposes, is a football stadium, located in the Almondvale area of Livingston, West Lothian, Scotland. It has been the home ground of Scottish Championship club Livingston since 1995, and has an all-seater capacity of 9,713.
4 km · football stadium in West Lothian, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia - 02Dechmont Law
Disambiguation: the name Dechmont, and an associated "Dechmont Hill" are also places near Cambuslang in Scotland Dechmont Law is a hill in Livingston, West Lothian, Scotland. It lies around 700 yards southwest of the village of Dechmont, which provides its name.
1.4 km · hill in West Lothian, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia - 03West Lothian Civic Centre
West Lothian Civic Centre is a municipal building on Howden South Road in Livingston, West Lothian in Scotland. The building serves as the offices and meeting place of West Lothian Council as well as the venue for hearings of Livingston Sheriff Court.
4 km · municipal building in Scotland · Wikipedia
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Getting to Dechmont
- Airports
- Edinburgh (EDI), 11 km · Glasgow (GLA), 56 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 80 km
- Stations
- Livingston North railway station, 2.2 km · Uphall railway station, 2.2 km · Livingston railway station, 3.1 km · Bangour railway station, 800 m
- Glasgow → Dechmont45 km · quickest by road, 56 min · £4.5–6
- Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Dechmont82 km · quickest by road, 1h 51m · £9–12
- Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Dechmont161 km · quickest by road, 3h 21m · £20–26
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No local-transport research exists yet for Dechmont
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 Dechmont. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inFrom Edinburgh, follow A90 west then branch off onto B924, the old road to the ferry.
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Next door to Dechmont
Dechmont is 21 km from Edinburgh, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Uphallvillage in West Lothian, Scotland, UK2.1 km
- Ecclesmachanvillage in West Lothian, Scotland, UK3.3 km
- Livingston Villagevillage in West Lothian, Scotland, UK3.8 km
- Pumpherstonvillage in West Lothian, Scotland, UK3 km
- Uphall Stationhuman settlement in West Lothian, Scotland, UK2.1 km
- Howdensuburb of Livingston, West Lothian, Scotland, UK3.6 km