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Mid Calder

Mid Calder is a village in West Lothian, Scotland.

Mid Calder
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The place

Mid Calder is a village in West Lothian, Scotland. It is located on a steep hill overlooking the River Almond and Calder Wood, around 15 miles (24 km) west of Edinburgh. The settlement has been on a major crossroads since its origin some time in the 11th century.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Mid Calder

10 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
    Almondvale 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.

    2.7 km · football stadium in West Lothian, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Illieston Castle

    Illieston House, also known as Illieston Castle, is a castle located in West Lothian, Scotland, by the River Almond near Broxburn. It was built around 1600 and features a T-plan design with gabled dormers and a staircase tower.

    3.6 km · castle in West Lothian, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Jupiter Artland

    Jupiter Artland is a contemporary sculpture park and art gallery outside the city of Edinburgh, Scotland. Jupiter Artland Foundation is a registered charity that is supported by classes, workshops, events, ticket sales, and donations.

    4 km · sculpture garden and art gallery in the west of City of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Almondell and Calderwood Country Park

    Almondell and Calderwood Country Park is a 220-acre Country Park in Mid Calder and East Calder in West Lothian, Scotland. It is a 4 star Visitor Attraction.

    1.7 km · country park in West Lothian, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Almondell Aqueduct

    The Almondell Aqueduct is a dual-purpose bridge in West Lothian, Scotland that crosses the River Almond. The bridge carries the Almond Feeder which supplies water to the Union Canal and the National Cycle Route 75.

    1.5 km · navigable aqueduct in West Lothian, Scotland · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Mid Calder Parish Church

    Kirk of Calder is a medieval church in Mid Calder, West Lothian. It is listed as a Category A building by Historic Environment Scotland.

    200 m · church in West Lothian, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Calder House

    Calder House is a historic Scottish country house in Mid Calder, Scotland, the family seat of the Sandilands family since 1348, and deemed to be one of the great Renaissance houses of Scotland.

    300 m · house in West Lothian, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Livingston Designer Outlet

    Livingston Designer Outlet is the largest outlet mall in Scotland, and opened in October 2000 under the ownership of McArthur Glen as McArthur Glen Livingston Designer Outlet and sits opposite the popular The Centre shopping centre. The glass roof reminiscent of the Crystal Palace was designed by an architect called Don Hisaka.

    2.6 km · shopping mall in West Lothian, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Camps Viaduct

    The Almondell Viaduct, also known as the Camps Viaduct, is a viaduct spanning the gorge of the River Almond in East Calder, West Lothian, Scotland. It also crosses the Almond Feeder which takes water from the River Almond to supply the Union Canal at Lin's Mill near Ratho.

    1.5 km · railway viaduct in West Lothian, Scotland · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    West 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.

    2.2 km · municipal building in Scotland · 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 Mid Calder

Airports
Edinburgh (EDI), 9 km · Glasgow (GLA), 59 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 81 km
Stations
Livingston South railway station, 2.6 km · Kirknewton railway station, 3 km · Uphall railway station, 3.3 km · Drumshoreland railway station, 3.4 km
  • Glasgow → Mid Calder
    49 km · quickest by road, 1h 4m · £5–7
  • Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Mid Calder
    83 km · quickest by road, 1h 59m · £9–12
  • Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Mid Calder
    156 km · quickest by road, 3h 25m · £19–25
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Mid Calder

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 Mid Calder. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inFrom Edinburgh, follow A90 west then branch off onto B924, the old road to the ferry.

From Wikivoyage: South Queensferry, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    109 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    120 km
  3. 03
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    147 km
  4. 04
    Isle of CollGB

    7 ways of moving, 16 sources

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

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    213 km

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

Around it

Next door to Mid Calder

Mid Calder is 19 km from Edinburgh, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.