Westquarter is a village in the Falkirk council area of Scotland. The village is west of Polmont and south-east of the town of

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. Westquarter can be accessed from the north via the A803 road and from the south via the

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. 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
www.falkirk.gov.uk. Retrieved 2011-04-27 Westquarter Primary School - geograph

In 1876

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who already manufactured detonators (for mining) at Westquarter, was joined by

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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/

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Falkirk Local History Society article on Westquarter
Villages in Falkirk (council area) Grangemouth {{Falkirk-geo-stub

Westquarter House

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