Livingston Village
Livingston
Village has been around for about 300 years and it
is the place in which the major town next door to it
is named after.
Livingston Village gets it's name from the Saxon named Leving or Leuing and the old English Toun or Tun
The village was then known as
Levings-Toun and slowly became known as
Livingston. The Village has been the starting
point of many industries, during the 19th century
Shale Oil industry in which
James Young's new
invention, Shale Oil was based around, most of the
miners of the Shale in the area lived in the Miners
Cottages on the main street.
The Miners cottages were the home of many of the shale miners throughout the industrial revolution of the 19th Century.
The original
Main Street is in Livingston Village containing
Livingston's oldest Pub, the Livingston Inn, known
to the locals as the "Livi Inn" Also situated on
the street is a Hair Salon, which used to be the
premises of the villages main shop.
The
Livingston Inn has been around since the days of the
old farm village of Livingston. The Inn was where
all the farm workers and laborers would go to at the
end of their workday and go and cool off with a nice
drink along with friends and relatives.
Livingston Village is the reason that the Town of Livingston exists today, if the village had never been built then the proposal of putting a town next to a farm village would never have happened here, and the expected overspill from Glasgow may very well have occurred.
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