Redding, Falkirk
Redding is a village within the Falkirk council area in Central Scotland. The village is southeast of Falkirk, south-southwest of Grangemouth and west of Polmont. At the time of the 2001 census, Redding had a population of 1,954 residents.No 3 - 2001 Census Population of settlements and wards
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History

On a hill beyond Redding is a stone that is called Wallace's stone, marking out the spot fro ...
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Boxing The Compass
The points of the compass are a set of horizontal, radially arrayed compass directions (or azimuths) used in navigation and cartography. A compass rose is primarily composed of four cardinal directions—north, east, south, and west—each separated by 90 degrees, and secondarily divided by four ordinal (intercardinal) directions—northeast, southeast, southwest, and northwest—each located halfway between two cardinal directions. Some disciplines such as meteorology and navigation further divide the compass with additional azimuths. Within European tradition, a fully defined compass has 32 'points' (and any finer subdivisions are described in fractions of points). Compass points are valuable in that they allow a user to refer to a specific azimuth in a colloquial fashion, without having to compute or remember degrees. Designations The names of the compass point directions follow these rules: 8-wind compass rose * The four cardinal directions are north (N), east (E) ...
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