40 Facts About Livingston Scotland

The locality of Livingston as defined by the General Register Office for Scotland includes Uphall Station and Pumpherston.

Livingston Scotland is the second-largest settlement in the Lothians after Edinburgh.

Livingston Scotland is first mentioned in an early 12th-century charter as Villa Levingi .

The oldest church, Livingston Scotland Old Kirk, in its current form, dates from 1732 and is an example of plain Presbetryrian architecture from the Georgian period.

Livingston Scotland station was built as a settlement to serve the workforce and their families of the nearby Deans Oil Works, owned by the Pumpherston Oil Company.

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Livingston Scotland Station had six streets with homes, as well as a store, a small church and a works institute.

Under the New Towns Act of 1946, Livingston Scotland was designated as a New Town on 16 April 1962 in order to ease overcrowding in Glasgow.

In 1995 Livingston gained its professional football team, Livingston F C The first team was essentially formed from the relocation of Meadowbank Thistle F C from Edinburgh.

Geology of Livingston Scotland is similar to that of West Lothian in general, characterised by former glacial history and composed of till.

Parts of Livingston Scotland have isolated areas of carboniferous sedimentary rocks which were worked and extracted for shale oil in the 19th and 20th centuries.

The area is primarily an urban area although as a new town, Livingston Scotland is characterised by large areas of forested paths, public parks and open spaces.

Valneva SE is a biotech company that has a manufacturing facility in Livingston Scotland which produces vaccines, including a vaccine against COVID-19.

Livingston Scotland has three major shopping centres, three medium large retail parks, and clusters of small local stores located throughout the different areas.

Livingston Scotland has a central bus terminal with 7 stances located on Almondvale Avenue between the two shopping centres in the town centre.

Livingston Scotland has buses to Edinburgh, Glasgow, Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, Lanark, Fife, Falkirk, and most West Lothian towns and villages.

Livingston Scotland has an excellent 'core path network' which is shared use, and available to pedestrians and cyclists.

Livingston Scotland North is located adjacent to the Carmondean Shopping Centre between Eliburn and Deans and is on the North Clyde Line.

On 12 December 2010, with the completion of the Airdrie-Bathgate Rail Link, Livingston Scotland North is served by trains running to Glasgow Queen Street and Airdrie.

Livingston Scotland South is located at the Murieston Shops and is on the Shotts Line and has trains running between Glasgow Central and Edinburgh Waverley via Shotts.

Livingston Scotland previously had its own Radio Station called River FM that was broadcast from the Almondvale Stadium, from 1 September 2003 until 29 January 2007.

Livingston Scotland is in the Almond Valley constituency for the Scottish Parliament, and the Member of the Scottish Parliament is Angela Constance of the Scottish National Party.

Livingston Scotland is covered by the Lothian electoral region which gives the area seven additional MSPs.

Livingston Scotland has its own constituency in the House of Commons; Livingston Scotland, and is represented by the Scottish National Party Member of Parliament Hannah Bardell.

The first MP elected for Livingston Scotland was Robin Cook who held the seat for six consecutive elections and held many government positions, most notably Foreign Secretary between 1997 and 2001.

Livingston Scotland used to be part of the Lothians European Parliament constituency.

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Livingston Scotland has 18 nursery schools, 17 primary schools, and five special schools.

Livingston Scotland has three public libraries which are Almondbank Library in Craigshill, Lanthorn Library in Dedridge, and Carmondean Library in Deans.

Livingston Scotland previously had a psychiatric hospital with a general hospital in the Dechmont area of the town called Bangour Village Hospital.

Livingston Scotland has a large hospital called St John's Hospital in the Howden.

Livingston Scotland has several public parks, including Eliburn park, Almondvale park, Howden park, Peel park, Campbridge park, Quarry park, and Bankton Mains park.

Livingston Scotland has its own Air Training Corps squadron, 2535 Squadron and Army Cadet Force unit .

Livingston Scotland Skatepark opened in 1981, at a time when most commercial skateparks were closing, and was one of the most important facilities in Britain during a critical period in the development of skateboarding.

Livingston Scotland has a number of youth football teams with the most successful being Murieston United who have teams ranging from the ages of under 9s to under 21s.

The stadium opened in November 1995, but the Livingston Scotland name had already been adopted some months earlier when the club was still playing at its former home Meadowbank Stadium in Edinburgh.

Livingston Scotland has several swimming pools, the main pool being a 20m public pool run by West Lothian Leisure .

Livingston Scotland has a cricket club known as the Kingfishers which fields teams for juniors and seniors and has fielded professional paid players.

The Club played at several locations in Livingston Scotland, including Bankton Mains and at Bangour Hospital sports field.

The creation of the National leagues in 1996 and the subsequent re-organisation of feeder leagues saw Livingston Scotland become a Division 1 club due to reconstruction of the East League.

Uniquely in Scotland, Livingston was from its formation designated an "Ecumenical Parish" in a joint initiative by the Church of Scotland, Scottish Episcopal Church, Methodist Church in Great Britain, and the Congregational Union of Scotland .

Apart from the Ecumenical Parish, Livingston Old Parish is a congregation solely within the Church of Scotland.