Ecclesmachan
Ecclesmachan (NT058736) is an historic village in West Lothian.
Ecclesmachan (NT058736) is an historic village in West Lothian. It lies just north of Uphall on the B8046 road and just south of Threemiletown. The village is notable for its medieval origin parish church. As at 2001, the population of the civil parish of Ecclesmachan was 529 and was 811 in 1991.
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Worth seeing in and around Ecclesmachan
One place 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.
- 01Niddry Castle
Niddry Castle is a sixteenth-century tower house near Winchburgh, West Lothian, Scotland. It is situated near the Union Canal, and between two large oil shale bings, or waste heaps.
3.7 km · castle in West Lothian, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Ecclesmachan
- Airports
- Edinburgh (EDI), 9 km · Glasgow (GLA), 58 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 83 km
- Stations
- Uphall railway station, 3.1 km · Drumshoreland railway station, 4 km · Philpstoun railway station, 3.4 km · Bangour railway station, 3.9 km
- Glasgow → Ecclesmachan47 km · quickest by road, 1h 3m · £5–7
- Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Ecclesmachan85 km · quickest by road, 1h 58m · £9–12
- Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Ecclesmachan161 km · quickest by road, 3h 27m · £20–26
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No local-transport research exists yet for Ecclesmachan
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 Ecclesmachan. 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 Ecclesmachan
Ecclesmachan is 19 km from Edinburgh, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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- Bridgendvillage bordering Linlithgow in West Lothian, Scotland, UK2.4 km
- Winchburghvillage in West Lothian, Scotland, UK3.3 km
- Uphallvillage in West Lothian, Scotland, UK1.8 km
- Uphall Stationhuman settlement in West Lothian, Scotland, UK3.3 km