LONGRIDGE, or Langrigg, a village, in the parish
of Whitburn, county of Linlithgow, 1| mile (S. by E.)
from Whitburn; containing 225 inhabitants. It lies on
the high road from Wilsontown to Linlithgow. Between
this village and that of Fauldhouse is a valuable field of
blackband ironstone, called the Crofthead, lately discovered;
it has led to great enterprise and industry in the
district, the aspect of which has in consequence remarkably
iin])roved. In the neighbourhood of the village is
a good stone-quarry. One of two libraries in the parish
is at Longridge.