Alloa
Alloa is a town in Clackmannanshire in the Central Lowlands of Scotland. It is on the north bank of the Forth at the spot where some say it ceases to be the River Forth and becomes the Firth of Forth.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Peter Gordon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Speirs Centre, Primrose Street, Alloa and Alloa Tower.
Speirs Centre, Primrose Street, Alloa
Library
Photo: AllyD, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Speirs Centre, Primrose Street, Alloa is a library.
Alloa Tower
Museum
Photo: AllyD, Public domain.
Alloa Tower in Alloa, Clackmannanshire, in central Scotland, is an early 14th-century tower house that served as the medieval residence of the Erskine family, later Earls of Mar.
Alloa railway station
Railway station
Photo: Geof Sheppard, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Alloa railway station is a railway station in Alloa, Clackmannanshire, Scotland. The station was first opened in 1850 and operated until 1968. The original station building from 1850 was replaced by a new structure in 1887, which was demolished following the closure and removal of the railway lines in 1968.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sauchie and South Alloa.
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.
South Alloa
Village
Photo: Ian S, CC BY-SA 2.0.
South Alloa is a small village which lies in the far north of the Falkirk council area of Scotland. The village is on the south bank of the River Forth where the river empties and widens to form the Firth of Forth.
Clackmannan
Town
Photo: Kim Traynor, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Clackmannan, is a small town and civil parish set in the Central Lowlands of Scotland. Situated within the Forth Valley, Clackmannan is 1.8 miles south-east of Alloa and 3.2 miles south of Tillicoultry. Clackmannan is situated 1½ miles east of Alloa.
Alloa
- Type: Town with 19,000 residents
- Description: town in Clackmannanshire, Scotland, UK
- Categories: small burgh and locality
- Location: Clackmannanshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
56.11561° or 56° 6′ 56″ northLongitude
-3.79224° or 3° 47′ 32″ westPopulation
19,000Elevation
72 feet (22 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB ALLOpen location code
9C8R4685+64OpenStreetMap ID
node 26515531OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Alloa” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Alloa”
- Azerbaijani: “Alloa”
- Basque: “Alloa”
- Breton: “Alamhagh”
- Bulgarian: “Алоа”
- Catalan: “Alloa”
- Cebuano: “Alloa”
- Chinese: “阿洛厄”
- Chinese: “阿洛阿”
- Czech: “Alloa”
- Dutch: “Alloa”
- Esperanto: “Alloa”
- French: “Alloa”
- Galician: “Alloa”
- German: “Alloa”
- Greek: “Άλοουα”
- Hebrew: “אלואה”
- Irish: “Alamhagh Mòr”
- Irish: “Alamhagh”
- Irish: “Allmhagh Mòr”
- Irish: “Allmhagh”
- Italian: “Alloa”
- Japanese: “アロア (イギリス)”
- Korean: “앨로아”
- Lithuanian: “Aloa”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Alloa”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Alloa i Skottland”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Alloa”
- Norwegian: “Alloa”
- Persian: “الوآ”
- Polish: “Alloa”
- Portuguese: “Alloa”
- Romanian: “Alloa”
- Russian: “Аллоа”
- Russian: “Алловай”
- Russian: “Аллоя”
- Scots: “Alloa”
- Scots: “Allowae”
- Scots: “Alloway”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Alamhagh Mòr”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Alamhagh”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Allmhagh Mòr”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Allmhagh”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Alloa”
- Slovak: “Alloa”
- Slovenian: “Alloa”
- South Azerbaijani: “الوآ”
- Spanish: “Alloa”
- Swedish: “Alloa”
- Ukrainian: “Аллоа”
- Uzbek: “Alloa”
- Welsh: “Alloa”
- “Alamhagh”
- “Alamhagh Mòr”
- “Allmhagh”
- “Allmhagh Mòr”
- “Alloa”
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