Human settlement in Scotland

Torphichen

Torphichen is a historic small village located north of Bathgate in West Lothian, Scotland.

Every way there

Glasgow → Torphichen
38 km · quickest by road, 55 min · £4.5–6
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Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Torphichen
77 km · quickest by road, 1h 50m · £9–12
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Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Torphichen
167 km · quickest by road, 3h 34m · £21–27
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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 Torphichen, 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 Torphichen has

YScheduled flightsIngliston, Edinburgh (EDI), 18 km
FTrains and coachesTransitous carries 3 timetable feeds for this country, 2 with real-time; a stop for a place this small is unverified
YFerriesHawes Pier, 18 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. Nearest place with more: Livingston, 9 km.

55.934°, -3.654°

The village is approximately 18 miles (29 km) west of Edinburgh, 7 miles (11 km) south-east of Falkirk and 4 miles (6.4 km) south-west of Linlithgow. The village had a population of 570 in the and a population of 710 in 2016. Torphichen's placename may be Gaelic in origin, e.g., "Tóir Féichín", Tor Fithichean, or partly from Brythonic "tre fychan" or small hill.

How locals move

Getting around Torphichen 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.