Country: | Scotland |
Static Image Name: | Goodall Place, Dechmont - geograph.org.uk - 1734533.jpg |
Static Image Caption: | Goodall Place, Dechmont |
Coordinates: | 55.921°N -3.537°W |
Official Name: | Dechmont |
Gaelic Name: | Deagh Mhonadh |
Label Position: | left |
Population Ref: | |
Os Grid Reference: | NT039708 |
Lieutenancy Scotland: | West Lothian |
Unitary Scotland: | West Lothian |
Constituency Westminster: | Livingston |
Constituency Scottish Parliament: | Linlithgow |
Post Town: | BROXBURN |
Postcode District: | EH52 |
Postcode Area: | EH |
Dial Code: | 01506 |
Dechmont (Gaelic: Deagh Mhonadh) is a small village located near Uphall, West Lothian in Scotland. Bangour Village Hospital is located to the west of Dechmont. It has an approximate population of 989 people. Its postal code is EH52.[1] An alleged alien encounter took place in 1979 in the nearby Dechmont Woods.[2]
The village has a small infant/primary school providing learning for pre-school through to primary three pupils. In 2012 the school roll was thirteen which consisted of five primary one pupils; four primary two pupils and four primary three pupils as well as sixteen pre-school infants[3]
Lothian Country operates daytime bus service X18 and night service N18 between Edinburgh and Whitburn via Broxburn, Bathgate and Armadale.
Several notable persons born between the 1948 and 1990 are described as being 'from' Dechmont as per their birth certificate, but have only a tenuous link to the town due to being delivered at Bangour General Hospital which operated in that period;[4] [5] most children born here would have grown up elsewhere in West Lothian.