hi there just to know that tippithill is not to close to bathgat but nearer to whitburn it lies about 3oo yards north of whitburn on the road to armadale
Tippethill is geographically closer to the present town of Whitburn than it is to the present town of Bathgate. However it is north of the River Almond, and the River Almond is the boundary between the parish of Bathgate to the north and the parish of Whitburn to the south. Therefore it is
in (the parish of) Bathgate, not (the parish of) Whitburn.
Monica posted a link to photographs taken around Tippethill, which is in grid square NS9465 in the Ordnance Survey map. See the map at
http://www.geograph.org.uk/gridref/NS9465In Scottish genealogy it's critically important to know which parish you are dealing with. All the pre-1855 records were collected on the basis of parishes. So when it says, 'Tippethill, Bathgate' what it is telling you is that Tippethill is in the parish of Bathgate. It just so happens that the main town in the parish has the same name as the parish in the case of Bathgate and Whitburn, but that isn't necessarily the case. The largest town in the parish of New Monkland is Airdrie, and the largest village in the parish of Dunnichen is Letham.
Road maps are pretty much useless for genealogy because they don't show all the small places, individual farms and houses. You need a map with a scale of 1:50,000 or more detailed. There are historic maps of Scotland at
http://maps.nls.uk/series/index.html - go for the Ordnance Survey, Six-inch to the mile, 1st edition - 1843-1882 as a first step. If you want the NG Ref for Tippethill it is NS943659.