Kirknewton (Scots: Kirknewtoun, Scottish Gaelic: Eaglais a' Bhaile Ùir)[2] is a village formerly in the county of Midlothian and, since 1975, in West Lothian, Scotland.

The current house is a reworking of the original by the architect William Playfair for Alexander Maconochie, Lord Meadowbank in 1835.

The most obvious evidence of its existence is the entrance lodge beside the start of the drive to the house at the south end of the village.

During World War II, the Royal Air Force built a military airfield at Whitemoss, a mile south east of Kirknewton.

While delays to traffic occur, this new system was planned to be substituted for a pedestrian and road-tunnel design which would have cost up to £18 million, critically damaged local farm land and required significant dynamite blasting close to a number of homes along the road to the West of the crossing.

[4] The village is served by Lothian Country's bus route X28 connecting Bathgate via Livingston and Regent Road, Edinburgh.

The other burial enclosure was constructed by the Royal Society of Physicians as a memorial for an important founding member, William Cullen (d.1790).