Livingston: The Place the Scots go shopping! Welcome to the five-minute guide to Livingston… the town with the best shopping districts in central Scotland. It used to be East Kilbride, but then the Plaza changed its name and Livingston came in with the double whammy. There is a Designer outlet, then there is the not-so-designer…
The Renfrewshire Town of Johnstone was a sort of new town, kinda. When the areas it is made up of all merged together somebody thought to name it Johnstone as a collective. It makes up most of the land ten miles to the west of Glasgow. It’s got a Paisley postcode as opposed to a…
Newquay is a seaside resort and fishing port, situated on the north coast of Cornwall in the south-west of England. The town lies approximately 12 miles (19 km) north of Truro and 50 miles (86 km) west of Plymouth. Newquay is bounded to the south by the River Gannel and to the north-east by the…
Kirkintilloch the East Dunbartonshire town whose name nobody can pronounce. So let’s call it ‘Kirkie’! ‘Kirkie’ began as a Roman fort… we think. There aren’t any recordings of a town here before then, but the ancient Scots didn’t tend to write things down. The Antonine wall runs through this town, the northernmost frontier of the…
Ever heard of Peterhead? No?! What have you been doing with your life?! Situated up north in Aberdeenshire, Peterhead is definitely a Heeland toon(as they say up there). It is perhaps best known for its port and fishing capacity. Peterhead is often part of the TV show ‘Trawlermen’. It is also one of the very…
Bathgate is everybody’s favourite West Lothian town. People in this region have a strong, east coast accent, even though they aren’t really on the east coast – at least not in Bathgate. It’s about 8 km from Livingston which is where everyone in West Lothian goes shopping. The M8 runs pretty much straight through it…
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