Laurieston, Falkirk
Laurieston is a village in the Falkirk council area in Central Scotland.It was then renamed Lawrencetown in 1765 after Napier sold the project to Sir Lawrence Dundas, becoming known as Laurieston within a few years.[3] Situated on the main street is Hawthorn Cottage, a nineteenth-century stone dwelling that was once owned by Alfred Nobel, inventor of dynamite and creator of the Nobel Prizes after his death.Nobel lived there while managing an explosives factory near the nearby villages of Redding and Westquarter.[4] Mumrills Fort, the largest Roman Fort on the Antonine Wall, was situated to the east while the path of the Antonine Wall runs through the village.