Boness

Boness, or BORROWSTOUNNESS, a seaport in Linlithgowshire, on the Firth of Forth, 23 miles WNW. of Edinburgh. A dingy place, it has a fine parish church (1886), a wet-dock of 7½ acres (1881), a large shipping trade in coal, and manufactures of salt, soap, malt, vitriol, iron, earthenware, &c. Graham's Dyke, otherwise Antoninus' Wall, traverses the parish. Dugald Stewart spent the last twenty years of his life at Kinneil House (Duke of Hamilton) in the neighbourhood. Pop. (1851) 2645; (1881) 5284; (1891) 5866.