WESTQUARTER, a village, in the parish of Glasford,
county of Lanark, 2^ miles (N. E.) from Strathaven;
containing 4S1 inhabitants. This village, which
takes its name from its situation in the western part of
the parish, is chiefly inhabited by persons employed in
the manufactures of the adjacent district. Westquarter
House is a handsome mansion; and the village contains
the parish church, the parochial school, and a Sabbath
school. There are also one male and one female friendly
society, and a temperance society, which are well supported,
and patronized by the heritors as productive
of benefit to the parish. Near the village are three
quarries of freestone, in which several of the labouring
poor find employment.