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Burngrange Court, WEST CALDER, EH55 8HA

This is the cul-de-sac at the east end of Burngrange Court in West Calder. The large tree was cut down a few months later.

This is the lane section of Burngrange Court in West Calder, heading towards Burngrange Cottages, with just over half an acre of bat-haunted, wild-growing wood and heath on the right, in the midst of all the houses.

Typical inter-war style of council houses common throughout central Scotland.

This nice old stone house on the way into West Calder from the West also goes by the name of 'Fairfield'. It went up at some point between Ordnance Survey's first two maps of the area, surveyed in the 1850s and 1890s. In the 1890s there was a field behind the house. By the time of the third map, surveyed in 1905, the field behind formed part of a golf course which occupied a long narrow series of fields stretching from the church two doors down to the left, to far beyond where West Calder's Burngrange residential area finishes today. The cemetery, which still marks the edge of the village, was about halfway along the course. There is, coincidentally, still a small unbuilt-on area at the back of this house in amongst the village suburbia, which runs alongside Burngrange Court. It is shown on maps by trees but is now something of a wasteland, so it might improve things if a couple of houses went up there. Or has it been recently been left in such a state to break down resistance to such an idea - i.e. it's all part of a cunning plan?

Building dates from 1880.

West Calder has a large medical centre with its own integral pharmacy, and convenient access to St John's, the large district hospital in Livingston.

Originally the rifle range but with a century or more of modification. http://www.geograph.org.uk/article/WW1-Great-War-Centenary---Drill-Halls/

In West Calder. I was told that this building was a 'rifle range'. http://www.geograph.org.uk/article/WW1-Great-War-Centenary---Drill-Halls/

On Young Street - I was told that the left hand building was a 'rifle range' and the brick building, now a partly boarded up house, but still lived in, was a 'Territorial Army' building. In its time the home of the 10th (Cyclist) Battalion, Royal Scots (G Company). http://www.geograph.org.uk/article/WW1-Great-War-Centenary---Drill-Halls

Occupying a substantial part of Burngrange Park. Former home of West Calder United Image