Cambusbarron
Cambusbarron is a village in Stirling, Scotland. In the 2001 census, it had a population of 3,224. There is evidence of settlement at the site since the Bronze Age, and several forts dating from the Iron Age have been found near the village.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Richard Webb, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Gillies Hill and Stirling Smith Art Gallery and Museum.
Gillies Hill
Peak
Photo: Peigimccann, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Gillies Hill is located west of Stirling and the M9, south of Cambusbarron, and north of the Bannock Burn in Central Scotland. Gillies Hill covers a 140 hectares crag and tail which rises from a height of 79 metres at the Bannock Burn Bridge near Sauchie Craig to an elevation of 162 m at a point which overlooks the former quarrying operation to the west and Stirling Castle to the east.
Stirling Smith Art Gallery and Museum
Museum
Photo: Otter, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Stirling Smith Art Gallery and Museum, formerly The Smith Institute, is an art and local history museum in Stirling, Scotland. The museum was founded in 1874 at the bequest of artist Thomas Stuart Smith.
Cowane’s Hospital
Museum
Photo: Elisa.rolle, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Cowane's Hospital is a 17th-century almshouse in the Old Town of Stirling, Scotland. It was established in 1637 with a bequest of 40,000 merks from the estate of the merchant John Cowane.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Torbrex Village and St Ninians.
Torbrex Village
Suburb
Photo: Richard Webb, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Torbrex is an area in the southwest of Stirling, Scotland, which developed around a small weaving village. It is neighboured by Cambusbarron to the west, St.
St Ninians
Suburb
Photo: AllyD, Public domain.
St. Ninians is a long-standing settlement which is now a district of the city of Stirling in central Scotland. It is located approximately one mile south of the city centre.
Stirling
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Stirling is a city in the central lowlands of Scotland, and historically the county town of Stirlingshire. For centuries this was the main route between the Highlands and the Lowlands, guarded by the castle on its battleship of a crag, and with the River Forth sweeping round as a moat.
Cambusbarron
- Type: Village with 3,220 residents
- Description: village in Stirling, Scotland, UK
- Category: locality
- Location: Stirling, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
56.10929° or 56° 6′ 33″ northLongitude
-3.96796° or 3° 58′ 5″ westPopulation
3,220Elevation
125 feet (38 metres)Open location code
9C8R425J+PROpenStreetMap ID
node 44784905OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2653938Wikidata ID
Q5025686
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Cambusbarron” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Cambusbarron”
- Dutch: “Cambusbarron”
- French: “Cambusbarron”
- German: “Cambusbarron”
- Hebrew: “קמבוסברון”
- Irish: “Camas a‘ Bharrain”
- Irish: “Camas a’ Bharrain”
- Welsh: “Cambusbarron”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Cambusbarron Post Office and Bruce Memorial Church.
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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 “Cambusbarron”. Photo: Richard Webb, CC BY-SA 2.0.