Kingscavil
Rows
coordinates:
55°58'12.65"N,
3°33'20.10"W
location: about 2 miles
east of Linlithgow, West Lothian, on an unclassified road
former parish: Linlithgow
current
status:
demolished c.1937 and land returned to agriculture.
date
constructed: c. 1885.
owner/builder: Linlithgow
Oil Company; James Ross & Co. from c.1900
"Kingscavil
consists of four rows running at right angles to the main
Edinburgh road...At Kingscavil there are 108 houses... (which)
consist of room and kitchen. There are small gardens in
front of the houses, but the surrounding walls are in a
very tumble-down condition. The rental is 1/9 for single
apartment houses and 2/6 for two apartment houses, inclusive
of local and county rates."
Theodore
K. Irvine, Report on the Housing Conditions in the Scottish
Shale Field, 1914.
site
of Kingscavil rows. October 2009
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