Place:


Bents  West Lothian

 

In 1882-4, Frances Groome's Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland described Bents like this:

Bents, a village, with a railway station, in Whitburn parish, Linlithgowshire, on the Bathgate and Morningside railway, adjacent to the boundary with Edinburghshire, 4¼ miles S by W of Bathgate.

Bents through time

Bents is now part of West Lothian district. Click here for graphs and data of how West Lothian has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Bents itself, go to Units and Statistics.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Bents in West Lothian | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/22392

Date accessed: 19th March 2024


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