Tour Scotland Spring travel video, with Scottish music, of an April drive West on the B9080 road from Winchburgh on visit to historic Linlithgow in West Lothian. The B9080 provides an alternative back route between Kirkliston and Linlithgow as well as serving as the main access route to the town of Winchburgh. It follows the original route of the A9 in West Lothian, before that road was downgraded following the arrival of the M9 in the early 1970s. For centuries, Linlithgow town lay on the main road west from Edinburgh, leading around the Forth to Stirling, which became the A9, but with the construction of the Scottish Motorway Network and the expansion of Edinburgh Airport, the road was downgraded, and much of the traffic moved away from the town centre. This leaves a very pleasant, cobbled High Street lined with fine old buildings that is busy with locals and tourists alike. After the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314, Sir James Douglas followed King Edward II and the remnants of his army to Winchburgh. Both sides rested at Winchburgh before riding on to Dunbar, where King Edward took ship for England. In 1568, Mary, Queen of Scots, escaped from Loch Leven Castle in Perthshire, and was met by Lord Seton, before crossing the Firth of Forth from South Queensferry. Mary stayed at Niddry Castle, Seton's property in Winchburgh, on 2 May 1568.
The surname Lythgoe was first found in Linlithgow, a Royal Burgh in West Lothian, Scotland. One of the earliest records of the name was Magister Symon de Lynlithcu who witnessed an instrument at the church of Cargil in 1225. A few years later in 1245, Petrus de Linlithqw was a canon of the priory of St. Andrews in Fife. His successor was Chief of the family name, son of John, and he was confirmed in his lands at Berwick on Tweed in 1280 and 1290. Lythgoe has appeared as Lithgow, Lithgoe, Lithcow and others.
James Lythgoe, aged 22, landed in New York, America, in 1864; Agnes Lythgoe, aged 30, immigrated to the United States from Liverpool, England, in 1892; Mary Lythgoe, aged 50, landed in America from Liverpool, in 1892; Sarah Lythgoe, aged 26, landed in America from Manchester, in 1905; Albert Morton Lythgoe, aged 38, landed in America, in 1907; Peter Lythgoe, a British convict who was convicted in Lancaster, Lancashire, England for life, was transported aboard the ship Bussorah Merchant on 1st October 1829, arriving in Tasmania.
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