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- proper noun A former
county ofScotland , now West Lothian.
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Examples
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_Kirkliston Church_, Linlithgowshire, has ancient tower and Norman doorways (S. and N.E.), and belonged originally to the Knights Hospitallers of St. John.
Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys Herbert Story
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_Bathgate Church_, Linlithgowshire, is now a ruin, being abandoned in 1739 for a new church.
Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys Herbert Story
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Linlithgowshire and to Duffus and the family estates in Moray, which were thus severed in ownership from Sutherland, and (3) Andrew.
Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time or, The Jarls and The Freskyns James Gray
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_Torphichen Church_, Linlithgowshire, represents the hospital or preceptory of Torphichen, from 1153 the principal Scottish residence of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem.
Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys Herbert Story
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We were then about a mile and a half from the old town of Linlithgow; here the River Avon separates the counties of Stirlingshire and Linlithgowshire.
From John O'Groats to Land's End Robert Naylor
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Broxburn [24] in Linlithgowshire, which he already held from the
Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time or, The Jarls and The Freskyns James Gray
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Of Freskyn or Fretheskin I, the founder of the line, we have no mention in any charter direct to him, [7] either of his Linlithgowshire lands at Strabrock, or of his estate near Spynie in Moray with its
Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time or, The Jarls and The Freskyns James Gray
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His early years were spent at Middleton, his father's residence in Linlithgowshire.
The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various
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Freskyn de Moravia then established at Strabrock in Linlithgowshire, who about 1120 or 1130 received, for his loyalty and services, extensive lands at Duffus and elsewhere in Morayshire, and probably about 1196 the lands in south Caithness known as Sudrland or
Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time or, The Jarls and The Freskyns James Gray
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Linlithgowshire, appears to have come on to St Andrews.
The Scottish Reformation Its Epochs, Episodes, Leaders, and Distinctive Characteristics Alexander F. Mitchell
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