WLGS 8 Almond Valley Heritage Centre [NT 0325 6689] (Figure 31)

WLC site description

Part of the Strathclyde Group sites

Other designations: LWS (River Almond)

The Almond Valley Heritage Centre Museum has an "oilshale adventure zone" display on the oil shale industry in West Lothian. Geological, mining, oil refining and the social history aspects of the oil shale industry are covered. The AVHC web pages also have a link to the "Secrets of the Bathgate Hills" leaflet and board game (www.almondvalley.co.uk/secrets/secrets.htm).

(Figure 31) Sluice weir on the River Almond 500 m upstream from the Almond Valley Heritage Centre [NT 0325 6689] (WLGS 8).