Volume contents
- 1 - Falkirk town , page 1 (start)
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- 86 - Falkirk town , page 86 (end)
- 87 - Falkirk town , title page
- 88 - Falkirk town , index
| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Falkirk | Falkirk | Thomas Keir Esq. Provost. J.P. [Justice of the Peace] Thomas Stark Esq. Bailie J.P. [Justice of the Peace] Mr. Alexander Black Town Surveyor |
Falkirk, a parliamentary burgh, the Capital of the Eastern part of Stirlingshire, and a town of considerable importance, is situated in 55° 49' North latitude, and 3° 44' longtitude West from Greenwich, 11 Miles East of Stirling, 24 East by North of Glasgow and 24 West of Edinburgh. It stands as to its main body on a gently rising ground, dotted round in its environs with neat and beautiful villas, and sending off in different directions two elongated and thin suburbs; seen from the soft eminences to the North and North West, it presents with its fine spire and its thick grouping of buildings, a beautiful foreground to the brilliant and fascinating landscape over which it presides, but when entered, the town is far from being in general of a pleasing aspect. An utter want of uniformity or neatness or tastefulness in its buildings; the absence of all spaciousness and plan in the arrangement of its streets, and a deficiency in the indications of enterprise and refinement in the number or architecture of its public edifices, depreciate it as a town, far below the importance which belongs to it as a market, and as the seat of a great population. Its High Street or Main Street is over most of its length or half a mile from east to west; wide and airy; and has in its wide parts large houses and good shops, and [continued on page 2] |
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Ordnance Survey - Stirling county, OS Name Books - Stirling county - Volume 12 - Town of Falkirk, OS1/32/12
This volume contains information on place names found in the town of Falkirk.
Ordnance Survey - Stirling county
Ordnance Survey was established in the 18th century to create maps, surveys and associated records for the entirety of Great Britain. These records are arranged by county. This entry has been created to enable searching for Ordnance Survey records for the county of Stirling, which is in central Scotland. The boundaries of the county were altered by the Boundary Commissioners in 1891.