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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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