Blackness, Falkirk

Blackness, Falkirk

Blackness is a village on the shore of the Firth of Forth in Scotland. It lies within the council area of Falkirk, and the former county of West Lothian.

The village originally served as a port for nearby Linlithgow, with a harbour on Blackness Bay, an inlet of the Forth. As a port it was superdeded by Bo'ness, and fell into decline from the 17th century. The small village is today dominated by Blackness Castle, situated on a promontory overlooking the bay.

External links

* [http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/scotgaz/towns/townfirst299.html Gazetteer for Scotland]


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