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List Of Places In Falkirk Council Area
:See the list of places in Scotland for places in other counties. The article is a list of links for any town, village and hamlet in the Falkirk council area of Scotland. A * Abbotshaugh Community Woodland *Airth, Airth Castle * Allandale *Antonine Wall *Avon Gorge * Avonbridge B * Bainsford *Banknock * Binniehill * Birkhill Caverns, Birkhill railway station * Black Loch * Blackness, Blackness Castle *Bo'ness, Bo'ness and Kinneil Railway, Bo'ness Motor Museum, Bo'ness railway station * Bonny Water *Bonnybridge * Braes villages * Brightons C *California * Callendar House, Callendar Park *Camelon, Camelon Fort, Camelon railway station * Carron, Carron Company * Carronshore * Castle Cary Castle *Clackmannanshire Bridge D * Denny *Dennyloanhead * Dunipace *Dunmore, Dunmore Pineapple E * Elphinstone Tower F *Falkirk, Battle of Falkirk, Battle of Falkirk Muir, Falkirk Golf Club, Falkirk Grahamston railway station, Falkirk High railway station, Falkirk Old Par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
List Of Places In Scotland
This list of places in Scotland is a complete collection of lists of places in Scotland. *List of burghs in Scotland *List of census localities in Scotland *List of islands of Scotland **List of Shetland islands **List of Orkney islands **List of Inner Hebrides **List of Outer Hebrides **List of outlying islands of Scotland **List of freshwater islands in Scotland *List of rivers of Scotland *List of lochs in Scotland *Waterfalls of Scotland *List of Munros *Extreme points of Scotland Lists of places within Scottish local authorities *List of places in Aberdeen *List of places in Aberdeenshire *List of places in Angus *List of places in Argyll and Bute *List of places in Clackmannanshire *List of places in Dumfries and Galloway *List of places in Dundee *List of places in East Ayrshire *List of places in East Dunbartonshire *List of places in East Lothian *List of places in East Renfrewshire *List of places in the Western Isles, List of places in na h-Eileanan Siar (Western Isles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Ochilview Park - Geograph
Ochilview Park is a football stadium in Stenhousemuir in the Falkirk council area of Scotland. It is the home ground of Scottish League One club Stenhousemuir. The stadium has a capacity of with 626 seated. Ochilview was opened in 1890 and has been the home of Stenhousemuir since then. It has also temporarily hosted home games of other nearby clubs including Stirling Albion, Falkirk and East Stirlingshire. The record attendance of 12,525 was set during a Scottish Cup quarter final match between Stenhousemuir and East Fife on 11 March 1950. History Stenhousemuir F.C. was founded in 1884 following the breakaway from a local team called ''Heather Rangers''. The club played at two other grounds, Tryst Park and Goschen Park, before moving to Ochilview in 1890.A Brief History of Stenhousemuir Football Club< ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Birkhill Railway Station
Birkhill railway station is a railway station on the Bo'ness and Kinneil Railway in Scotland, equidistant from Grangemouth, Bo'ness, Linlithgow and Polmont. The station was opened on 6 October 1838. There was no station here until the Scottish Railway Preservation Society took over the branch line. The parts of the building were recovered from Monifieth railway station and were originally rebuilt in 1988 by Central Regional Council as their display at the Glasgow Garden Festival. When this closed the building was relocated to Birkhill. The summit of the line, located to the south of the station, was regraded and lowered to avoid the new platform being on an excessive gradient, and the station was opened to passengers in 1989. The station was the limit of regular train operations from Bo'ness until 2010 when the services were extended to Manuel. The adjacent Birkhill Fireclay Mine is in the Bo'ness area and an integral part of the town's history but the Fireclay mine closed in 2013 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Birkhill Caverns
Birkhill and neighbouring Muirhead are two small villages in Angus, just to the west of Dundee, Scotland. Community features Features of Muirhead and Birkhill include: *A branch of Asda Express (one of the first Asda Express shops in the UK) *A small hill known to locals as The Roundie *Birkhill Primary School, built in 1993 and later extended (the extension officially opened by Andrew Welsh MSP in 2002). Most students go to ''Monifieth High School'' for secondary education, with the school providing buses for the journey to Monifieth. Scottish footballer Craig Brewster attended the older Muirhead Primary School which has now been converted into several houses. *Sports facilities, including a football pitch, a tennis court and a bowling club *The Birkhill Inn, a small restaurant and pub often called the "Birkie Inn" *The Millennium Hall, which hosts clubs and events *Birkhill is located next to Templeton Woods, home to one of the largest populations of red squirrels in the UK ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Binniehill
Binniehill is a village in Falkirk Falkirk ( ; ; ) is a town in the Central Lowlands of Scotland, historically within the county of Stirlingshire. It lies in the Forth Valley, northwest of Edinburgh and northeast of Glasgow. Falkirk had a resident population of 32,422 at the ..., Scotland. The name is a tautology, with "binnie" coming from Scottish Gaelic "binnean" meaning a small hill. External links Canmore - Binniehill Colliery site record Villages in Falkirk (council area) {{Falkirk-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Banknock
Banknock () is a village within the Falkirk council area in Central Scotland. The village is west-southwest of Falkirk, east-northeast of Kilsyth and north-northeast of Cumbernauld. Banknock is located on the Bonny Water, north of the Forth and Clyde canal and west of the A80 road near to the boundary of Falkirk and North Lanarkshire councils. At the time of the 2001 census, Banknock had a population of 2,529 residents.No 3 - 2001 Census Population of settlements and wards www.falkirk.gov.uk. Retrieved 8 May 2011 History There were coal mines along the north side of the valley. Cannerton Pit was one of these mines and its spoil heap, locally called 'the Bing', was a local land ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Bainsford
Bainsford is a small village within the Falkirk council area of Scotland. The village is situated in the Forth Valley, north of the town of Falkirk. It is positioned between the River Carron and the Forth and Clyde Canal to the north and south respectively. The main road through the village is the B902 road which connects the village with Carron and Falkirk. Bainsford has a population of just over 3,000 residents according to a 2009 estimate. History The bridge crossing the Forth and Clyde Canal at Bainsford was originally a bascule bridge. In 1905, the bascule bridge was replaced by a heavier swing bridge to accommodate the new tramway. This in turn was replaced by a non-opening road bridge.BBC "Scotland's Landscape" www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2011-03-02. Originally a separate village, Bainsford has now becom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Avonbridge
Avonbridge () Drochaid na h-Aibhne www.faclair.com Retrieved 2023-03-05 is a small village which lies within the council area of . The village is south-southeast of the town of . Avonbridge sits just inside the council boundary line between Falkirk and councils. The village lies ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Avon Gorge, Falkirk
The Avon Gorge () is a small wooded gorge in Falkirk, Scotland. Biology An area of of the gorge is a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest; it was notified in 1986. The steep wooded banks constitute one of the few remaining ancient, semi-natural woodland sites in Falkirk District. Plants found here which are rare in Falkirk District include alternate-leaved golden saxifrage (''chrysosplenium alternifolium''), moschatel (''adoxa moschatellina'') and hemp agrimony (''eupatorium cannabinum''). The site also contains pendulous sedge (''carex pendula'') and lily of the valley (''convallaria majalis'') both of which are uncommon in Scotland. The Avon Gorge is one of the few remaining oak-dominated woodlands in the central belt of Scotland, others include the nearby Callendar wood. History After defeat at the Battle of Falkirk, William Wallace reportedly took refuge in a cave in the Avon Gorge. The cave is signposted from a nearby road as 'Wallace's Cave'. Transpo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Antonine Wall
The Antonine Wall () was a turf fortification on stone foundations, built by the Romans across what is now the Central Belt of Scotland, between the Firth of Clyde and the Firth of Forth. Built some twenty years after Hadrian's Wall to the south, and intended to supersede it, while it was garrisoned it was the northernmost frontier barrier of the Roman Empire. It spanned approximately and was about high and wide. Lidar scans have been carried out to establish the length of the wall and the Roman distance units used. Security was bolstered by a deep ditch on the northern side. It is thought that there was a wooden palisade on top of the turf. The barrier was the second of two "great walls" created by the Romans in Great Britain in the second century AD. Its ruins are less evident than those of the better-known and longer Hadrian's Wall to the south, primarily because the turf and wood wall has largely weathered away, unlike its stone-built southern predecessor. Construction be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Allandale, Falkirk
Allandale is a small village in the Falkirk council area of Scotland. Allandale is located south-west of Bonnybridge, north-east of Cumbernauld and west-southwest of Falkirk. The entire village is a row of terraced housing along a section of the B816 road from Bonnybridge to Castlecary. The village is bordered to the north by the Forth & Clyde Canal and to the south by the former LMS railway. History The village of Allandale was built in 1904 to house workers of a new brickworks started by J.G Stein and Co.Monklands Online , www.monklands.co.uk. Retrieved 2011-04-13 Dundas Cottages was built for management and office staff a few years later, the council built additional houses in the 1960s. See www.allandalecottages.co.uk Sports In 1970 football club, Steins Thistle, was founded as a team for the work ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Airth
Airth () is a Royal Burgh, village, former trading port and civil parish in Falkirk, Scotland. It is north of Falkirk town and sits on the banks of the River Forth. Airth lies on the A905 road between Grangemouth and Stirling and is overlooked by Airth Castle; the village retains two market crosses and a small number of historic houses. At the time of the 2001 census the village had a population of 1,273 residentsScotland's Census Results Online - Comparative Population Profile: Airth Locality www.scrol.gov.uk. Retrieved 2008-08-31 but this has been revised to 1,660 according to a 2008 estimate. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
