BathgateWest Lothian

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About Bathgate

Known for

James Young (the father of the oil industry, born here), the shale bings landscape, and a West Lothian town between Edinburgh and Glasgow

A little history

Bathgate's James 'Paraffin' Young pioneered the oil industry by extracting paraffin from shale here in the 1850s — decades before the Texas oil boom. The shale bings still dot the West Lothian landscape.

Local tip

The shale bings — pink and purple waste heaps from the oil industry — are unique in Scotland. Beecraigs Country Park for walking.

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