Dunmore is a small village in the
Falkirk council area
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of
Scotland
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. It lies south east of
Stirling
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and north of
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 ...
. The village lies along the
A905 road
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between
Throsk and
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 ...
on the banks of the
River Forth
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.
The population of Dunmore was recorded as 70 in the
United Kingdom Census 2001
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The 2001 UK census was organise ...
, and as 79 in the
census of 1991.
Formerly known as Elphinstone Pans, the settlement was entirely remodelled as a planned village in the 1840s by the local landowner, the
Countess of Dunmore. Dunmore is a
conservation area
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.
Landmarks
The
Dunmore Pineapple, an 18th-century
folly
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Eighteenth-cent ...
owned by the
National Trust for Scotland
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, lies south of Dunmore, on the estate of the now-derelict Dunmore Park House.
Notable people
*Dr
L. W. Hinxman FRSE
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(1855-1936) a geologist and son of the local minister, Rev Charles Hinxman, was born and raised in Dunmore.
See also
*
List of places in Falkirk council area
References
External links
Falkirk Local History Society - DunmoreBBC - Scotland's Landscape - Dunmore
Villages in Falkirk (council area)
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