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Bathgate is probably best and most widely known from featuring in the chorus of the Proclaimers song Letter from America . The reality is a West Lothian town with a recorded history dating back the better part of a thousand years, but which for the past two hundred has seen a succession of short-live industrial.Bathgate first enters the chronicles of historys in a confirmation charter by King Malcolm IV of Scotland 1141 – 9 December 1165. In royal charters of the 12th, 13th and 14th centuries, the name of Bathgate has appeared as: Bathchet (1160), Bathket 1250 and Bathgetum 1316. Batket in the 14th century, and by the 15th appeared as both Bathgat and Bathcat. The name is a “manifest corruption” of the original Cumbric derivation meaning Boar Wood baedd coed.
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