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Striking and magnificent object thrown up in the construction of that great national work
Also an aqueduct of no mean character for the amount and other qualities of its masonory
carries across the same vale the Edinburgh Union Canal. The parish is in the presbytery
of Linlithgow and Synod of Lothian and Tweeddale. Patron the Crown. From the pro-
-prietors of the church the parish was anciently called Temple-liston to distinguish it
from several other places which were with some prefix the name of the whole manor
Kirkliston came to be the parochial designation. An entirely detached portion of the parish
called Listonshiels is situated at a distance from the parish. See plans of the Co. [County] Edinburgh