Cowie
Cowie is a village in the Stirling council area of Scotland. Historically part of Stirlingshire, it lies on the minor B9124 road approximately 4 miles southeast of Stirling and about 1 mile north of the A9 road.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 2,720 residents
- Description: village in Stirling, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Cowie, Stirling”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Plean Castle and Plean House.
Plean Castle
Castle
Photo: Derek Ferris, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Plean Tower, also known as Cock-a-bendy Castle, Mengie Castle, Menzies Castle and Plane Castle, is located around 1 mile from Plean, in Stirling, central Scotland. Plean Castle is situated 1½ miles southeast of Cowie.
Plean House
Ruins
Photo: Kevin Rae, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Plean House is a ruins, which is situated 1½ miles south of Cowie.
William Simpson’s Home
Social service facility
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The William Simpson's Home is a care home in Plean, Scotland. It provides care for members of the armed services who have developed mental health or alcohol related problems. William Simpson’s Home is situated 1½ miles south of Cowie.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Plean and Throsk.
Plean
Village
Photo: Kevin Rae, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Plean is a village, in the Stirling council area of central Scotland, located on the main A9 road from Falkirk. At the 2001 census, Plean had a population of 1,740. Plean has some historic buildings, some council houses and an estate.
Throsk
Village
Photo: Gareth Foster, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Throsk is a village in the Stirling council area of Scotland. It lies on the A905 road east of Fallin close to the River Forth. The United Kingdom Census 2001 recorded the population as 231.
Fallin
Village
Photo: Richard Webb, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Fallin is a former pit village in Central Stirling, in the county of Stirlingshire. It was on the site of the Polmaise Colliery 3&4, and both of the names Polmaise and Fallin were commonly used. Fallin is situated 1½ miles north of Cowie.
Cowie
- Category: locality
- Location: Stirling, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
56.08219° or 56° 4′ 56″ northLongitude
-3.86879° or 3° 52′ 8″ westPopulation
2,720Elevation
141 feet (43 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB CWIOpen location code
9C8R34JJ+VFOpenStreetMap ID
node 29340634OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Cowie” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Cowie”
- Cebuano: “Cowie”
- Dutch: “Cowie”
- French: “Cowie”
- German: “Cowie (Schottland)”
- German: “Cowie”
- Irish: “Collaidh”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Collaidh”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Cowie”
- Spanish: “Cowie”
- Swedish: “Cowie”
- Welsh: “Cowie”
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Highlights include Cowie Post Office and Cowie Community Centre.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Cowie”. Photo: Kevin Rae, CC BY-SA 2.0.