Summary
Westquarter is a village in the Falkirk council area of Scotland. The village is 1 mile (1.6 km) west of Polmont and 1.8 miles (2.9 km) south-east of the town of Falkirk.
Westquarter
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 Westquarter Dovecote, built for the long demolished Westquarter House some 150 years ago | |
  Westquarter Location within the Falkirk council area | |
| Population | 1,120 (mid-2020 est.)[1] |
| OS grid reference | NS916786 |
| • Edinburgh | 21.5 mi (34.6 km) ESE |
| • London | 343 mi (552 km) SSE |
| Civil parish | |
| Council area | |
| Lieutenancy area | |
| Country | Scotland |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | FALKIRK |
| Postcode district | FK2 |
| Dialling code | 01324 |
| Police | Scotland |
| Fire | Scottish |
| Ambulance | Scottish |
| UK Parliament | |
| Scottish Parliament | |
Westquarter can be accessed from the north via the A803 road and from the south via the B805 road.
At the 2001 census the village of Westquarter was recorded as having a resident population of 1,105.[2]
In 1876 George McRoberts who already manufactured detonators (for mining) at Westquarter, was joined by Alfred Nobel to build the Nobel Explosives Factory in Westquarter.[3]
Westquarter House edit
This mansion dated from at least 1626 and from 1701 belonged to the Livingston family. It was lost after the uprising of 1715, being confiscated from the family due to their Jacobite sympathies but was regained by Sir Alexander Livingston in 1784. His son Admiral Thomas Livingston took over the estate around 1824 and died there in 1853. His wife continued there for some years but being childless the estate passed to a distant relative, Thomas Fenton Livingstone, in 1884, who greatly enlarged and remodelled the property. It was purchased by Stirling County Council in 1934 and demolished in 1936 to create the Westquarter housing scheme.[4]
See also edit
References edit
- ^ "Mid-2020 Population Estimates for Settlements and Localities in Scotland". National Records of Scotland. 31 March 2022. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
- ^ No 3 - 2001 Census Population of settlements and wards Archived 2011-06-03 at the Wayback Machine www.falkirk.gov.uk. Retrieved 2011-04-27
- ^ "Nobel Westquarter Chemical Works". unioncanalunlocked.org.uk. Retrieved 23 July 2021.
- ^ "Westquarter". 16 April 2018.
External links edit
- Falkirk Local History Society article on Westquarter