Stirlingshire and Clackmannanshire Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
historic county of Scotland
About Stirlingshire and Clackmannanshire
This is where you think you've reached the Highlands. Not quite: the Ochils east and Campsie Fells west are an outlying ridge, with a gap at Stirling where the River Forth finds a way through. But they're close, and Stirling Castle sits on its crag to guard the historic route between Edinburgh and the Highlands. Several important battles were fought in the vicinity. Scotland was divided into shires (meaning the jurisdiction of a sheriff) in the 11th century, and both Stirling and Clackmannan figure in a royal list of shires of 1305. Down the centuries these underwent various changes of boundary and of function, to adopt something like their present shape after 1889. By then the eastern lowland portion of Stirlingshire was industrial and urbanised, while the rugged west was depopulated as f
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