Apart from housing, agricultural workshops and stores, it also had three public houses: The Crown, The Red Lion and The Black Bull (only The Black Bull remains to this day).Map of Polmont 1860. The village slowly expanded after the second world war with housing being built on land of former estates of Millfield, Polmont Park, and Polmont House. From the mid-1970s the population significantly expanded when housing was built on the Gilston Estate, whereupon the village was re-designated as a dormitory town.