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Philpstoun

Field	Value
country	Scotland
official_name	Philpstoun
gaelic_name	Baile Philip
label_position	bottom
static_image_name	The Union Canal at Philpstoun (geograph 2417871).jpg
static_image_caption	The Union Canal at Philpstoun
os_grid_reference	NT047770
population_ref	Unknown (2017)
map_type	Scotland
coordinates
unitary_scotland	West Lothian
lieutenancy_scotland	West Lothian
constituency_westminster	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
constituency_scottish_parliament	Linlithgow
Lothian
post_town	LINLITHGOW
postcode_district	EH49
postcode_area	EH
dial_code	01506

Lothian

Philpstoun is a small village in West Lothian, Scotland, situated roughly 2 mi east of the historic county town of Linlithgow. The village originated in the oil shale mining boom of the 19th century. Surrounded by rich arable farm land, the village has a Community Education Centre and a Category B listed church. Philpstoun railway station closed in 1951 and Philpstoun and District Bowling Club closed in February 2012.

The bulk of the village lies between the Union Canal and the Glasgow–Edinburgh railway line, although the easternmost part, Old Philpstoun, lies north of the railway and closer to the M9 motorway.

bing]] near Philpstoun, the result of intensive mining from the middle of the 19th century to the middle of the 20th

Community centre

Philpstoun Community Education Centre is owned and maintained by West Lothian Council. The building was constructed around 1910, originally being referred to as "The Institute at Philpstoun." The building was commissioned by James Ross and Co., Philpstoun Oil Works Ltd, and was constructed along with the three rows of terraced houses to the north of the centre in a development referred to as the "Philpstoun Garden City."

References

{{Historic Environment Scotland
Theodore K. Irvine (1914) ''Report on the Housing Conditions in the Scottish Shale Field''

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