Bridge of Allan
Bridge of Allan is a small Victorian Spa town in Stirlingshire in central Scotland, with a population of 5250 in 2021. Nestled beneath the iconic Wallace Monument, it's part of the city of Stirling.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Bridge of Allan railway station and HM Prison Stirling.
Bridge of Allan railway station
Railway station
Photo: Rosser1954, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Bridge of Allan railway station is a railway station located in the town of Bridge of Allan, north of Stirling, Scotland. It lies between Stirling and Dunblane on the Highland Main Line, Glasgow–Aberdeen line and Edinburgh–Dunblane line.
HM Prison Stirling
Prison
HM Prison and Young Offender Institution Stirling is a prison facility in Stirling, Scotland, intended to replace HMP Cornton Vale. Opened in 2023, it is Scotland's primary facility for incarcerated women and is designed to offer improved treatment for women…
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Dunblane and Stirling.
Dunblane
Photo: Neil Aitkenhead, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Dunblane is a market and commuter town, with a population of 9410 in 2016. It's nowadays regarded as part of the city of Stirling in Stirlingshire, although historically it was in Perthshire.
Stirling
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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.
Cornton
Suburb
Photo: Greg Morss, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Cornton, known locally as The Cornton, is a district of the city of Stirling on the North Bank of the River Forth in central Scotland.
Bridge of Allan
- Type: Town with 4,930 residents
- Description: town in Stirling, Scotland, UK
- Categories: small burgh and locality
- Location: Stirling, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
56.155° or 56° 9′ 18″ northLongitude
-3.9481° or 3° 56′ 53″ westPopulation
4,930Elevation
43 feet (13 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB BGAOpen location code
9C8R5342+2QOpenStreetMap ID
node 29345752OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Bridge of Allan” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جسر ألن”
- Asturian: “Bridge of Allan”
- Basque: “Bridge of Allan”
- Catalan: “Bridge of Allan”
- Cebuano: “Bridge of Allan”
- Chinese: “亚伦桥”
- Chinese: “布里哲夫亚伦”
- Dutch: “Bridge of Allan”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جسر الن”
- French: “Bridge of Allan”
- Galician: “Bridge of Allan”
- German: “Bridge of Allan”
- Hebrew: “בריג אלן”
- Irish: “Drochaid Ailein”
- Irish: “Drochaid Alain”
- Italian: “Bridge of Allan”
- Persian: “بریج آو الن”
- Polish: “Bridge of Allan”
- Scots: “Brig Allan”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Drochaid Ailein”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Drochaid Alain”
- Spanish: “Bridge of Allan”
- Swedish: “Bridge of Allan”
- Welsh: “Bridge of Allan”
- “Bridge of Allan”
- “Drochaid Ailein”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Bridge of Allan”. Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.