Bathgate is a town in West Lothian, Scotland, on the M8 motorway five miles west of Livingston. Edinburgh Airport is 13 miles away, situated 2 miles south of the Neolithic burial site at Cairnpapple Hill. Bathgate and the surrounding area show signs of habitation since about 3500BC. Bathgate first entered the chronicles of history in a confirmation charter by King Malcolm IV of Scotland. In royal charters of the 12th, 13th and 14th centuries, the name of Bathgate has appeared as Bathchet, Bathket, Bathgetum and Batket and by the 15th appeared as both Bathgat and Bathcat.
The artist based the design off the town on local geographic features like Drumlin. It is an elongated whale shaped hill formed by the glacier action. Its long axis is parallel with the movement of the ice, with the blunter end facing into the glacial movement. According to the 2001 census the total population of Bathgate was 15,100.
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