Once a separate village with its own harbour, Bridgeness is a district of Bo'ness lying to the east of Grangepans.
Around 1766, in the shadow of the now residential Bridgeness Tower, a small one kiln potworks started to produce brownware pottery from the local clay. It closed around 1802.
Pottery production returned to the area in 1887 with the opening of C.W. McNay's Bridgeness Pottery. The pottery was owned by the McNay family throughout its 71 years of manufacturing and closed in 1958.