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| • | Livingston is a town in central Scotland. It is located approximately 10 miles west of Edinburgh and 30 miles east of Glasgow, and is bordered by the towns of Broxburn to the east and Bathgate to the west. Livingston is served by Edinburgh Airport which is 11 miles/18km away.
Livingston is the largest town in the West Lothian area. It was built around two small villages, Livingston Village and Livingston Station (now called Deans South). It consists of the following areas Craigshill, Howden, Dedridge, Ladywell, Knightsridge, Murieston, Deans, and Eliburn. Its neighbouring villages include East Calder, Mid Calder, Uphall Station, Pumperston and Bellsquarry. According to the 2001 census Livingston's population is a little over 41,000 putting it in the top 20 of towns or cities in Scotland.
Livingston is also the second largest settlement in the Lothians after Edinburgh and its population is larger than Dundee or Inverness. Until 1963 the area was open farmland surrounding the ancient village of Livingston, the name was of course taken from this village which dates back to 1100ࢀ&#-2509; when a Flemish entrepreneur called De Leving was granted land in the area. He built a fortified tower which long since gone and the settlement that grew up around it became known as Levingstoun and eventually Livingston.
Livingston was built as part of the New Towns Act of 1946 (amended 1959), in part to ease overcrowding in Glasgow. In order to build, manage and promote Livingston a development organisation was formed, the Livingston Development Corporation.The local economy was, for some time, based around technology, with several multi-national companies having factories in the town, and BSkyB having its main call centre located there. The largest employers are now the retail sector and the National Health Service.The corporation guided Livingston until the middle of the 1990s when its mandate expired and the town was transferred to West Lothian Council. The last major construction operation carried out by the LDC was the Almondvale Stadium, which was to become the home to the renamed Livingston FC.
Construction in Livingston has continued under West Lothian Council and the town now features one of the largest shopping complexes in Scotland, a new purpose built campus for West Lothian College and other developments.
Source: [wikipedia: livingston, scotland]
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