Blackness is in Scottish Highlands, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 56.0037°, -3.5220°.

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Blackness

Blackness in Scotland Islands, United Kingdom.

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Blackness is a place of interest in Scotland Islands, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.

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Blackness is a small village and harbour at Blackness Bay, an inlet of the Firth of Forth in Scotland. It lies 3.4 mi (5.5 km) east-southeast of Bo'ness, 5.0 mi (8.0 km) west-northwest of South Queensferry and 3.8 mi (6.1 km) north-east of Linlithgow, within the council area of Falkirk. It was formerly part of the historic county of West Lothian. At the 2001 Census Blackness was reported as having a population of around 135 residents.

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History

The village originally served as a port for nearby Linlithgow, which was a principal residence of the Scottish monarchs from as early as the 12th century. James IV gave the village to one of his household servants, John Kirkwood, Master of the Larder, in January 1502. As a port, Blackness was later superseded by Bo'ness, and fell into decline in the late 17th century. Blackness Low Valley House is a mid-18th century house that is Category C listed. In 1875, a public water hand-pump was installed in the village and this is, along with a newer hand-pump, located against a wall opposite a block of flats in the center of the village. In 1914, the St Ninian’s Blackness Mission Church was erected…

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