Westwood
Row
coordinates:
55°51'18.80"N,
3°36'15.36"W
location: on B7015,
about three miles West of Livingston, West Lothian
former parish: Livingston
current
status:
site cleared (c. 1925?) now used for grazing
date
constructed: c.1868?
owner/builder: Westwood
Oil Co. (Cptn J. Stewart); Young's PLMO from c1871 ?
Site
of Westwood Row, looking East towards Five Sisters bing. October
2009
"At
a meeting of the Bathgate District Committee of West Lothian
Council, the clerk submitted a letter from the Scottish Board
of Health inimating that their housing inspector had been
inquiring into the circumstances of evictions of tenants at
Westwood Row, near Blackburn, and that in his report stated
that the houses in question were in an entirely uninhabitable
condition"
West
Lothian Courier, 25th April 1924
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