Local knowledge Whitburn needed

[goldie61]

Hi
Does anyone know where "Wester Reeves" is/was near Whitburn please?
I have a couple of baptisms of James Wood's daughters from the old parish registers in 1807 and 1809 which gives Wester Reeves (I think) after his name. Can't find an entry for Margaret in 1814 though - any ideas where would be the next closest place?
Many thanks

[Skoosh]

Goldie,  there's a Reveston House just south of Whitburn?

Skoosh.

[Seoras]

Could it have been a farm.

[Gadget]

Looks like you're near it Skoosh - Reeves is just to the NE of Reveston House on an old map. Will see if I can get the link.

Gadget

[tidybooks]

Hi,

The postcode is EH47 9AN, think it must have been a farm, there was a north reeves  and south reeves, also.

http://www.zoopla.co.uk/property/wester-reeves/whitburn/bathgate/eh47-9an/8300797

Tom

[Gadget]

I can't seem to link the old map but this link gives you the approx position of Reeves on a modern map:

 http://www.rootschat.com/links/0vdx/


Gadget

[Seoras]

Hi,

The postcode is EH47 9AN, think it must have been a farm, there was anorth and south reeves, also.

http://www.zoopla.co.uk/property/wester-reeves/whitburn/bathgate/eh47-9an/8300797

Tom

I did wonder tidybooks. I was just going on personal experience. I had family farmed near Strathloanhead and their farm was Middle Strath. A few fields away RCer Mosstrooper's family farmed at Wester Strath.

[Forfarian]

The Streetmap position is misleading - it puts Reeves in the middle of a housing estate about half a mile to the east. Reeves is at National Grid reference NS 941 639.

Go to http://www.geograph.org.uk/gridref/NS9463 and click on the map to enlarge it. Reeves is marked but not named on the maps. It is north of the road leading from the A706 to Reveston House, about a third of the way along (or two-thirds if you are starting from Reveston House.

Move your cursor around there until the reference at the top of the map box reads NS 94151 63946 and you'll be right on top of it.

[Gadget]

Thanks for giving the full reference, Forfarian 

The arrow was a rough approximation (as I said)  of  Reeves from a different map onto the modern one*. I've not done any mapwork (apart from hillwalking and car navigation)  since I was 18  so I'm a bit rusty 

However,  I see that my arrow wasn't all that far out and it does seem to be close to the housing estate.