Broxburn

Broxburn, a mining and manufacturing village of Linlithgowshire, on the Union Canal, 12 miles W. of Edinburgh. It is chiefly notable for its shale-oil works. Those of the Broxburn Oil Company, built in 1878, employ about 1600 men, and turn out annually about 10,000,000 gallons of crude paraffin oil from the shale mined in the neighbourhood, besides paraffin candles, paraffin wax, sulphate of ammonia, and other bye-products. Pop. (1871) 1457; (1881) 3210; (1891) 5898.