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Stirlingshire and Clackmannanshire

Stirlingshire and Clackmannanshire are counties in the of Scotland. They're lowland, with a mix of farmland and urban industry, but with hills rising steeply nearby. The big attraction is Loch Lomond and the Trossachs.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Stirling and Falkirk.

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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.

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is a town in the central belt of Scotland, traditionally in Stirlingshire but since 1996 a unitary authority, effectively a metropolis. It's industrial and in 2020 had a population of 35,590.

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is a market and commuter town, with a population of 9410 in 2016. It's nowadays regarded as part of the city of in Stirlingshire, although historically it was in Perthshire.

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is a village in in the of Scotland, with a population of 2,800 in 2016. The scenic glen leading up to the castle is the reason to visit.

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is a small town in Stirlingshire in the of Scotland. Tourist publicity calls it "The Gateway to the Highlands" and for once that over-used term is correct: the town sits right on the lowland-highland fault line, with crags looming just north of town, and streams racing out of the mountains to form the River Teith.

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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 .

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is a village in Stirlingshire, some 8 miles northwest of , with a population in 2021 of 2240. The reason to come here is to visit the castle, en route to the Trossachs.

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is a village five miles east of Falkirk in Stirlingshire in central Scotland. It's mainly a commuter village for Edinburgh and Stirling. Grangemouth just north is a busy port and petrochemical town, also described on this page.

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is a village in Stirlingshire in the of Scotland. It's within , four miles from the east shore of , and this is the main reason to visit.

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is a village in Stirlingshire, 6 miles northeast of the head of . It bills itself as "the gateway to the Highlands" but it's more like halfway down the hall, because it's distinctly Highland in nature.

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is a village in the county of Stirlingshire and Clackmannanshire in central Scotland. With a population of maybe 60, it's the only village along the scenic east bank of Loch Lomond.

Stirlingshire and Clackmannanshire

Latitude of center
56.0701° or 56° 4′ 12″ north
Longitude of center
-3.9087° or 3° 54′ 31″ west
Population
248,000
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1290360930
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­county
Wiki­data ID
Q1229763
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In Other Languages

From Azerbaijani to Welsh—“Stirlingshire and Clackmannanshire” goes by many names.
  • Azerbaijani: “Sterlinqşir”
  • Catalan: “Stirlingshire”
  • Chinese: “史特灵郡”
  • Chinese: “士他令郡”
  • Chinese: “斯特靈”
  • Chinese: “斯特靈郡”
  • French: “Stirlingshire”
  • German: “Stirlingshire und Clackmannanshire”
  • German: “Stirlingshire”
  • Greek: “Κομητεία του Στέρλινγκ”
  • Greek: “Στέρλινγκσαϊρ”
  • Hebrew: “סטירלינגשייר”
  • Irish: “Siorrachd Shruighlea”
  • Italian: “Stirlingshire”
  • Japanese: “スターリングシャー”
  • Kurdish: “Stirlingshire”
  • Latin: “Sterlinensis”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Stirlingshire”
  • Norwegian: “Stirlingshire”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Striuelinscīr”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Striuelinsċīr”
  • Persian: “استرلینگ‌شر”
  • Polish: “Stirlingshire”
  • Portuguese: “Stirlingshire”
  • Russian: “Стерлингшир”
  • Scots: “Stirlinshire”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Siorrachd Shruighlea”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Siorrachd Sruighlea”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Stirlingshire”
  • Slovenian: “County of Stirling”
  • Slovenian: “Grofija Sirling”
  • Slovenian: “Stirlingshire”
  • Ukrainian: “Стерлінгшир”
  • Venetian: “contea de Stirling”
  • Welsh: “Swydd Sterling”

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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 “Stirlingshire and Clackmannanshire”. Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.