BATHGATE  , a municipal and

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