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Title: Anyone read this placename? - West Lothian
Post by: Jamie_W75 on Sunday 26 February 06 13:06 GMT (UK)

Hi,
  Does anyone know of this place, listed on a Scottish birth certificate from 1863. Obviously I can see the Parish of Bathgate part, but does anyone recognize the placname above it? Looks like Durham__ something??..

Any help appreciated.

regards
    Jamie

Title: Re: Anyone read this placename? - West Lothian
Post by: ricky1 on Sunday 26 February 06 13:17 GMT (UK)

Hi Jamie
Could it be Durham town
ricky

Title: Re: Anyone read this placename? - West Lothian
Post by: Jamie_W75 on Sunday 26 February 06 13:21 GMT (UK)

Is there such a place in the Parish of Bathgate?

Title: Re: Anyone read this placename? - West Lothian
Post by: NellW on Sunday 26 February 06 14:43 GMT (UK)

Durhamtown is listed in the 1885 gazetteer of Scotland as "a village in Bathgate parish, Linlithgowshire, 1 mile SSW of Bathagte town.

There's a reference to Durhamtown, Bathgate here:

http://www.mining-villages.co.uk/128.html

Helen

Title: Re: Anyone read this placename? - West Lothian
Post by: Little Nell on Sunday 26 February 06 15:02 GMT (UK)

It can be found on the old OS map as well:

http://www.old-maps.co.uk

You have to navigate to Bathgate and then south west from there.  It's on the railway line near Bathgate Chemical Works.  The map is dated 1856.

Nell

Title: Re: Anyone read this placename? - West Lothian
Post by: Jamie_W75 on Sunday 26 February 06 16:14 GMT (UK)

Thankyou very much