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Recording Your Heritage Online
Event ID 566339
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Recording Your Heritage Online
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/566339
Almondell & Calderwood Country Park
Lovely ravine of the River Almond and its feeders, the Murieston and Linhouse Waters, opened as a country park in the 1970s. The Visitor Centre, c.1790, coachhouse and stables for the curiously unsophisticated Almondell House (designed by its owner Henry Erskine in 1786 and demolished in 1969), is symmetrical with pedimented two-storey centre section flanked by pavilion-roofed wings and other offices. Guidebook available.
In front is the Earl of Buchan's Astronomical Pillar, 1776, removed from Kirkhill House, Broxburn; a square pier, incised with Latin inscriptions and astronomical equations, surmounted by a belltower and cross. Other stone fragments rescued from Kirkhill by West Lothian History and Amenity Society have recently been built into the garden walls. Walks are peculiarly beautiful.
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
