 Later stone was carried by the canal to help build Edinburgh's new town in the 1830s and Falkirk's public buildings in the 1850s.The local church was built between 1846-47 from stone quarried in the village and gifted by the quarry owner, Alexander Lawrie.The old quarry was then named "Lawrie Park" in his honour, though newer residents to the village call it Quarry Park.