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Uphall

Uphall is a village in West Lothian, Scotland.

Uphall
Uphall · Rosser1954
The place

Uphall is a village in West Lothian, Scotland. It forms a conurbation with Broxburn to the east, Dechmont to the west and the major town of Livingston to the south west. Uphall is 30 miles from Glasgow and 14 miles from Edinburgh in the Scottish Lowlands. Uphall Station and Pumpherston are separate villages that lie to the south of Uphall.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Uphall

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.

  1. 01
    Dechmont 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.

    3.4 km · hill in West Lothian, Scotland, UK · 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.

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Getting to Uphall

Airports
Edinburgh (EDI), 9 km · Glasgow (GLA), 58 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 82 km
Stations
Livingston North railway station, 3.9 km · Uphall railway station, 1.4 km · Drumshoreland railway station, 2.9 km · Bangour railway station, 2.8 km
  • Glasgow → Uphall
    47 km · quickest by road, 59 min · £5–6
  • Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Uphall
    84 km · quickest by road, 1h 54m · £9–12
  • Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Uphall
    159 km · quickest by road, 3h 23m · £20–26
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Uphall

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 Uphall. 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

    118 km
  3. 03
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    145 km
  4. 04
    Isle of CollGB

    7 ways of moving, 16 sources

    205 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 Uphall – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Uphall

Uphall is 20 km from Edinburgh, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Broxburntown in West Lothian, Scotland, UK2.3 km
  • Dechmontvillage in West Lothian, Scotland, UK2.1 km
  • Ecclesmachanvillage in West Lothian, Scotland, UK1.7 km
  • Pumpherstonvillage in West Lothian, Scotland, UK2.7 km
  • Uphall Stationhuman settlement in West Lothian, Scotland, UK1.5 km
  • Threemiletownhamlet in Ecclesmachan, West Lothian, Scotland, UK3.8 km