English / Map Form: Longford
Gaelic Form: An Longphort
Post Town: WEST CALDER
Postcode area: EH55
County: West Lothian
Local Authority: West Lothian
English / Map Form: Longford
Gaelic Form: An Longphort
Sources
Wester Lõphart / Easter Lomphard 1654 Blaeu
U. Longford 1773 Armstrong [from Dixon, 400]
Overlongfoord 1786 Sasines (2027);
“Longford, West Calder, is Lomphard in Blaeu, for longphort, encampment, etc.; compare Lumphart Hill in Aberdeenshire.” Watson 1926, 145
Watson mentions this place in a discussion about the element longphort in Watson 2002 (1930), 225.
