Westwood; the mansion beneath the bing
Return to the Burnhouse to Westwood path
Westwood house was a fine Jacobean- style mansion, built around 1807, and home for many years of the local laird, Captain Robert Steuart. The site of the mansion and its fine grounds are now buried beneath there the five sisters bing. Between the wars, the once-grand house was sold to Oakbank oil company and sub-divided to house oil company staff. All evidence suggests that the buildings were dismantled long before the landscape was buried by the advancing bing, however a fanciful notion has spread that "there's a house beneath the bing", conjuring up images of a time capsule awaiting the attentions of a future generation of archaeologist.
Find out more about the Westwood estate, Westwood oil works, and the story "the five sisters"
25" OS map c.1955 courtesy National Library of Scotland
A rather tired-looking Westwood house. See full record LVSAV1992.019.094
An unknown group having fun at Westwood; seemingly not to the manor born. LVSAV1992.019.017