Volume contents
| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alva | Alva Alva Alva |
Mr. William Robertson Mr. John Riddoch Revd. [Reverend] Andrew Brown |
133.12 | A large village situated at the south base of the Ochil Hills. The greater part of it is comparatively new, having been built within the last twenty years. The principal street is that part of the turnpike road from Stirling to Kinross intersecting it from west to east. The houses on each side of this street are chiefly two storeys; in the rest of the village the houses are mostly but one storey. Woollen manufacture is carried on here to a considerable extent, and gives employment to most of the inhabitants. It has three churches, four schools, a branch of the Union Bank of Scotland, one hotel, a town hall, several very good shops, and two small publichouses. Besides the mills worked by steam power, there are a number of buildings in which handloom weaving is carried on. |
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Parish of Alva
Ordnance Survey - Stirling county, OS Name Books - Stirling county - Volume 2 - Parish of Alva, OS1/32/2
This volume contains information on place names found in the parish of Alva.
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.