Dechmont Explained

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.

Notable residents

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.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Dechmont, West Lothian Information . postcode-info.co.uk . 2015-11-26.
  2. http://www.mysteriousbritain.co.uk/ufo's/dechmont.html Livingston Incident
  3. http://www.westlothian.gov.uk/media/downloaddoc/1799471/1880471/dechissq1112
  4. https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/linda-first-baby-born-bangour-2630642 Linda was first baby born in Bangour maternity unity, Daily Record / West Lothian Courier, 3 July 2008
  5. https://www.scotsman.com/arts-and-culture/scottish-fact-day-bangour-village-hospital-1519357 Scottish fact of the day: Bangour Village Hospital
  6. Web site: Memory Lane: The story of Dechmont Castle. 19 March 2017.
  7. News: Ones to watch in 2018: folk singer Hannah Rarity . 3 November 2021 . www.scotsman.com . 9 January 2018 . en.