"Torwood Castle is situated on the southern edge of the Tor Wood, approximately half a mile west of the A9. In medieval times, the Tor Wood was a royal forest and the office of forester was held from the second half of the fifteenth century until 1635 by the Forestars of Garden, when 'the lands of Torheid and the Forest of the Tor Wood' were acquired by George, first Lord Forrester of Corstorphine. The castle appears to have been built in 1566 - the date on a stone panel discovered at the site and now preserved in Falkirk Museum - presumably by Sir Alexander Forestar of Garden, one-time Provost of Stirling who died in 1598. L-shaped in plan, the building consists of a main block aligned east-west and a short wing extending north. A large courtyard formerly enclosed by later buildings lies to the north. The main building is roofless, but it is of special interest because of its transitional character between a castle and a mansion. The design tends towards the horizontal rather than vertical and the plan was based on the hall, which decisively determined the entire layout."
Spellings of Forester/Forestar etc., are the way they appear in 'Old Denny, Dunipace and Bonnybridge', written by Tony Martin, published by Stenlake