Napoleon Pillar
Napoleon Pillar is a memorial in Clackmannanshire, Scotland. Napoleon Pillar is situated nearby to the hospital Clackmannanshire Community Healthcare Centre, as well as near the village Sauchie.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Alloa Tower and Alloa railway station.
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 Tower is situated 1 mile southwest of Napoleon Pillar.
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. Alloa railway station is situated 3,300 feet southwest of Napoleon Pillar.
Speirs Centre, Primrose Street, Alloa
Library
Photo: AllyD, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Speirs Centre, Primrose Street, Alloa is a library, which is situated 4,100 feet southwest of Napoleon Pillar.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sauchie and 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.
Alloa
Town
Photo: Peter Gordon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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.
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.
Napoleon Pillar
- Type: Memorial
- Inscription: “This Pillar/was conquest of Napoleon at Grand Cairo in Egypt/in the year 1798/and/having been captured by the Allies en route to France/was sent by them to Florence/where it was bought by my father C E Dede”
- Category: historic site
- Location: Clackmannanshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
56.12401° or 56° 7′ 26″ northLongitude
-3.77618° or 3° 46′ 34″ westOpen location code
9C8R46FF+JGOpenStreetMap ID
node 12942397750OpenStreetMap feature
historic=memorial
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Clackmannanshire Community Healthcare Centre and Sauchie Post Office.
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