Town in West Lothian, Scotland

Bathgate

Bathgate is a town in West Lothian, Scotland, 5 miles (8 km) west of Livingston and adjacent to the M8 motorway.

Every way there

Glasgow → Bathgate
38 km · quickest by road, 52 min · £4–5
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Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Bathgate
75 km · quickest by road, 1h 47m · £8–11
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Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Bathgate
164 km · quickest by road, 3h 30m · £20–27
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

The field note

What is in and around Bathgate, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

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What Bathgate has

YScheduled flightsIngliston, Edinburgh (EDI), 18 km
YTrains and coachesTransitous carries 3 timetable feeds for this country, 2 with real-time
YFerriesHawes Pier, 19 km, Maid of the Forth; sailings estimated
YDriving and taxiOpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
NBike and scooter shareno share feed known
NCruisesno open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known.

55.902°, -3.643°

Nearby towns are Linlithgow, Livingston, and West Calder. A number of villages fall under the umbrella of Bathgate, including Blackburn, Whitburn, Stoneyburn, Armadale, Torphichen and Fauldhouse.

How locals move

Getting around Bathgate the local way

Get inGrangemouth Docks are busy with freight but never had ferries.

From Wikivoyage: Polmont, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.