Alva
Alva is a small town in Clackmannanshire, set in the Central Lowlands of Scotland. It is one of a number of towns situated immediately to the south of the Ochil Hills, collectively referred to as the Hillfoots Villages or simply The Hillfoots.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 4,960 residents
- Description: town in Clackmannanshire, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Alva, Clackmannanshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Alva Academy and Strude Mill, Alva.
Alva Academy
School
Alva Academy is a six-year comprehensive school serving the towns and villages of Alva, Menstrie, Tillicoultry, Coalsnaughton, Devonside, Dollar and Muckhart, all in Clackmannanshire, Scotland.
Strude Mill, Alva
Apartment building
Photo: Strudemiller, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Strude Mill, Alva is an apartment building.
Sauchie Tower
Photo: Kirsty Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sauchie Tower, also known as Devon Tower, is a 15th-century tower house in Clackmannanshire, Scotland. The tower is located by the village of Fishcross, 1 kilometre north of Sauchie and 2.5 kilometres north of Alloa, close to the River Devon.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Fishcross and Tullibody.
Fishcross
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Fishcross is a small village in Clackmannanshire in central Scotland, situated to the north of Sauchie at a crossroads just south of Tillicoultry. Formerly a mining village, the population is 484 as at 2003. Fishcross is situated 1½ miles southeast of Alva.
Tullibody
Town
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Tullibody is a village set in the Central Lowlands of Scotland. It lies north of the River Forth near to the foot of the Ochil Hills within the Forth Valley. Tullibody is situated 2 miles southwest of Alva.
Sauchie
Village
Photo: Richard Webb, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sauchie is a town in the Central Lowlands of Scotland. It lies north of the River Forth and south of the Ochil Hills, within the council area of Clackmannanshire. Sauchie is situated 2 miles southeast of Alva.
Alva
- Categories: small burgh and locality
- Location: Clackmannanshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
56.15303° or 56° 9′ 11″ northLongitude
-3.80112° or 3° 48′ 4″ westPopulation
4,960Elevation
72 feet (22 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB ALAOpen location code
9C8R553X+6HOpenStreetMap ID
node 29345506OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Alva” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Alva”
- Basque: “Alva”
- Bulgarian: “Алва (град Шотландия)”
- Bulgarian: “Алва (Шотландия)”
- Bulgarian: “Алва”
- Cebuano: “Alva”
- Chinese: “阿爾瓦 (蘇格蘭)”
- Chinese: “阿爾瓦”
- Chinese: “阿罗威”
- Dutch: “Alva”
- Esperanto: “Alva”
- French: “Alva”
- German: “Alva”
- Irish: “Alamhagh Beag”
- Irish: “Allmhagh Beag”
- Italian: “Alva”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Alva (Skottland)”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Alva i Skottland”
- Norwegian: “Alva”
- Persian: “الوا، کلاکماننشر”
- Persian: “الوا”
- Polish: “Alva”
- Russian: “Элва (Клакманнаншир)”
- Russian: “Элва (Шотландия)”
- Russian: “Элва, Клакманнаншир”
- Russian: “Элва”
- Scots: “Alva, Clackmannanshire”
- Scots: “Alva”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Alamhagh Beah”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Allmhagh Beag”
- Spanish: “Alva”
- Swedish: “Alva, Skottland”
- Swedish: “Alva”
- Ukrainian: “Алва”
- Welsh: “Alva”
- “Alamhagh Beag”
- “Allmhagh Beag”
- “Alva”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Alva Post Office and Alva Parish Church.
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