Alva Academy
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.- Email: alva@edu.clacks.gov.uk
- Type: School
- Description: secondary school in Clackmannanshire, Scotland, UK
- Address: Academy Avenue, Alva, FK12 5FE
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Sauchie Tower and Strude Mill, Alva.
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. Sauchie Tower is situated 1 mile southeast of Alva Academy.
Strude Mill, Alva
Apartment building
Photo: Strudemiller, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Strude Mill, Alva is an apartment building, which is situated 2,300 feet north of Alva Academy.
HM Prison Glenochil
Prison
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
HMP Glenochil is a prison located near Tullibody, Scotland. It houses male offenders of High, Medium and Low security classifications. The prison does not accept prisoners directly from the courts but commits prisoners who have been previously convicted and located in other prisons, primarily HMP Perth, HMP Edinburgh, HMP Barlinnie and HMP Grampian. HM Prison Glenochil is situated 1¼ miles southwest of Alva Academy.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Alva and Glenochil Village.
Alva
Town
Photo: Callum Black, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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.
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.
Alva Academy
- Categories: secondary school and education
- Location: Clackmannanshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
56.15042° or 56° 9′ 2″ northLongitude
-3.7914° or 3° 47′ 29″ westOperator
Clackmannanshire CouncilOpen location code
9C8R5625+5COpenStreetMap ID
way 218002833OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=schoolWikidata ID
Q4737612
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In Other Languages
From French to Italian—“Alva Academy” goes by many names.
- French: “Alva Academy”
- Italian: “Alva Academy”
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Highlights include Alva South Bowling Club and Saint John Vianny’s RC Church.
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