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Bathgate Castle

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Situated south of present railway line and adjacent to Guildiehaugh playing fields represented by a 2 - 3m high mound inside 2 ditches, facing the drive from the medal tee at the tenth hole of Bathgate golf course

 In 1328, the Castle was given as a dowry by Robert Bruce when his daughter Marjorie (elsewhere Marjory) married Walter, High Steward of Scotland, after whose death the castle was no longer inhabited.

 

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