Blackness is a small village and harbour at Blackness Bay, an inlet of the Firth of Forth in Scotland. It lies 3.4 mi east-southeast of Bo'ness, 5.0 mi west-northwest of South Queensferry and 3.8 mi north-east of Linlithgow, within the council area of Falkirk. It was formerly part of the historic county of West Lothian.