Westquarter is a village in the
Falkirk council area
Falkirk (; sco, Fawkirk; gd, An Eaglais Bhreac) is one of 32 unitary authority council areas of Scotland. It was formed on 1 April 1996 by way of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 from the exact boundaries of Falkirk District, one ...
of
Scotland
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. The village is west of
Polmont
Polmont ( gd, Poll-Mhonadh) is a village in the Falkirk council area of Central Scotland. It lies towards the east of the town of Falkirk, north of the Union Canal, which runs adjacent to the village.
Due to its situation in Central Scotland, ...
and south-east of the town of
Falkirk.
Westquarter can be accessed from the north via the
A803 road
The A803 is a road in central Scotland. It runs from Glasgow to Champany Corner, due north-east of Linlithgow).
Route
Beginning at Townhead in central Glasgow as part of a feeder system for the M8 motorway, forming part of the interchange at ...
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.
[No 3 - 2001 Census Population of settlements and wards](_blank)
www.falkirk.gov.uk. Retrieved 2011-04-27
![Westquarter Primary School - geograph](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6e/Westquarter_Primary_School_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1292184.jpg)
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.
Westquarter House
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.
[https://falkirklocalhistory.club/around-the-area/places/westquarter/]
See also
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Falkirk Braes villages
References
External links
Falkirk Local History Society article on Westquarter
Villages in Falkirk (council area)
Grangemouth
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