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Bo'ness
Borrowstounness commonly known as Bo'ness ( ) is a coastal parish in the Central Lowlands of Scotland. It lies on a hillside on the south bank of the Firth of Forth within the Falkirk council area, north-west of Edinburgh and east of Falkirk. At the 2001 census, Bo'ness had a population of 13,961〔(No 3 - 2001 Census Population of settlements and wards ) www.falkirk.gov.uk. Retrieved 2008-08-31〕 but according to a 2008 estimate this has since risen to 14,490.〔 Until the local government reforms of the late 20th century, it lay within the county of West Lothian.
==Toponymy==
The name Borrowstoun refers to a hamlet a short way inland from Borrowstounness. The suffix 'ness' (Norse for 'headland') serves to differentiate the larger town from the hamlet. The name itself is derived from the Old English ''Beornweardstun'' meaning 'Beornweard's town'. 'Beornweard' is itself an Old English name (from ''Beorn'',〔beorn, OE from Wiktionary〕 'warrior/man' or 'bear', and ''weard'',〔weard, from Wiktionary〕 'warden, guardian, keeper'.)
This was later corrupted to ''Borrowstoun'', Scots for 'town with a charter'.
The town's full name is rarely used, and is nowadays almost always contracted to Bo'ness.
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