West Calder

Worth seeing in and around West Calder

5 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
   Almond Valley Light Railway

   The Almond Valley Light Railway is a 2 ft 6 in narrow gauge heritage railway running at the Almond Valley Heritage Trust site at Livingston, Scotland. The railway operates at weekends between Easter and the end of September and daily during some school holiday periods.

   3.9 km · narrow gauge heritage railway in West Lothian, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
2. 02
   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 km · house east of Blackburn, West Lothian, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Murieston Castle

   Murieston Castle is a ruined tower house, dating from the 16th century, 2 miles west of West Calder, west of the Murieston Water, at Murieston Castle Farm, West Lothian, Scotland. It is a scheduled monument and between 1971 and 2018 it was a Category B listed building.

   3.1 km · ruined tower house at Murieston Castle Farm, West Lothian, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Museum of the Scottish Shale Oil Industry

   The Museum of the Scottish Shale Oil Industry was created in 1990, to preserve the history of the shale industry in West Lothian and beyond. It is sited on a former mill at Millfield, near Livingston, Scotland.

   3.9 km · museum in West Lothian, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
5. 05
   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.

   1.3 km · British Zoo · Wikipedia

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Getting to West Calder

Airports

Edinburgh (EDI), 16 km · Glasgow (GLA), 54 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 74 km

Stations

Addiewell railway station, 2.5 km · West Calder railway station, 200 m · Harburn railway station, 2.9 km

• Glasgow → West Calder

  43 km · quickest by road, 58 min · £4.5–6
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• Prestwick, South Ayrshire → West Calder

  76 km · quickest by road, 1h 52m · £9–12
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• Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → West Calder

  157 km · quickest by road, 3h 32m · £20–27
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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 West Calder. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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