Philpstoun, General
Village (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Philpstoun, General
Classification Village (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 274819
Site Number NT07NW 287
NGR NT 04750 77039
NGR Description Centred on NT 04750 77039
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/274819
- Council West Lothian
- Parish Linlithgow
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District West Lothian
- Former County West Lothian
Philpstoun
Old Philpstoun retains much of its charm - a cluster of stone and pantiled dwellings at the very edge of a wood, and East Philpstoun Farm, a white-rendered, window-margined Improvement farmhouse. Only a gable remains of Philpstoun Mill, 1784. The village of Philpstoun grew with shale mines and oil works at White Quarries. Brick cottages of mine and railway workers spread out on either side of the wooded dip of the Pardovan Burn. Castlepark House, centrepiece to the village on its fine burnt-girt tump, is an opulent bay-windowed Victorian villa with baronial touches possibly incorporating an earlier house.
Taken from "West Lothian: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Stuart Eydmann, Richard Jaques and Charles McKean, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk