Livingston is a planned town located only 25 km west of Edinburgh. It is only 18 miles from the Edinburgh airport. This planned town is the largest town in the West Lothian and it was built around the tow smaller villages of Livingston Village and Deans South. According to the 2001 census, it is the 13th largest town in Scotland. At one time, all of this area was open farmland. The village dates back to the 12th century when the land was granted to a Flemish entrepreneur by the name of De Leving. Although the fortified tower that he built here is long gone, the name of Livingston still remains being derived as it was from the name Leving and the Old English word "tun": for town. The New Towns Act of 1946 allowed for the establishment of new towns and this town was the result. When the mandate for the Livingston Development Corporation ran out in the mid-1990’s, the town became part of the West Lothian Council.
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