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BATHGATE

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 513 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BATHGATE , a municipal and See also:

police See also:burgh of See also:Linlithgowshire, See also:Scotland, 19 m. W. by S. of See also:Edinburgh by the See also:North See also:British railway. Pop. (1901.) 7549. The See also:district is See also:rich in See also:limestone, See also:coal, ironstone, shale and fireclay, all of which are worked. See also:Silver also was once See also:mined. The manufactures include See also:paraffin, See also:paper, See also:glass, chemicals, See also:flour and See also:whisky, and freestone is quarried. The burgh is a considerable centre for agricultural produce. Bathgate became a burgh of See also:barony in 1824 and a police burgh in 186.5. Although it was not until the development of its See also:mineral See also:wealth that it attained to commercial importance, it is a See also:place of some antiquity, and formed the See also:dowry of Marjory, See also:Robert See also:Bruce's daughter, who married See also:Walter, the hereditary steward of See also:Scot-See also:land, in 1315.

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