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Title: The imperial gazetteer of Scotland; or, Dictionary of Scottish topography, compiled from the most recent authorities, and forming a complete body of Scottish geography, physical, statistical, and historical
Year: 1868 (1860s)
Authors: Wilson, John Marius
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Publisher: London A. Fullarton
Contributing Library: National Library of Scotland
Digitizing Sponsor: National Library of Scotland

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aigmill, sur-mounts one of the famous windings of the Forth,leaves the village of Blairlogie to the right, skirtsthe alpine slopes of Dunmyat, commands views ofthe hill-skirts round Manor-house and Menstrie,crosses the Devon on a peculiarly constructed via-duct, partly supported on piers and partly suspendedby timber beams, has a station at Cambus, 5 milesfrom Stirling, moves near the Forth within view ofits shipping, and has an important station at thewestern outskirts of Alloa. A branch diverges hereto Alloa-ferry. The main line, after leaving Alloa,passes under a high bridge, sends off a branch toTillicoultry, commands a fine view of the Ochils,and has a station at Clackmannan, 8f miles fromStirling. A short gradient of considerable abrupt-ness occurs immediately beyond Clackmannan sta-tion. The scenery from this point is much inferiorto that hither from Stirling, being much softer andfar less diversified; yet it possesses interestingfeatures. The stations hence are Kincardine, a.!
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STIRLINGSHIRE. 751 STIRLINGSHIRE. 10$ miles from Stirling; Bogside, at 13 miles; EastGrange, at 15 miles; and Oakley, at 16i miles. Asteep gradient, 1 in 100, occurs a little beyond theOakley station, but it is very short; and the linethen descends toward Dunfermline. The totallength of the railway, exclusive of branches, is21 miles. It is all carefully marked with levelsand mile-posts. No engineering difficulties of anyconsequence lay in the way of its formation. Thepart of it from Alloa to Dunfermline was ready foruse before the part from Stirling to Alloa, and wasopened in August, 1850. The line is leased by thecompany of the Edinburgh and Glasgow railway. STIRLING-HILL. See Peterhead. STIRLINGSHIRE, an inland county of Scotland.It lies on the mutual border of the Highlands andthe Lowlands, but much more within the latter thanthe former, at nearly mid-distance between theGerman ocean and the Atlantic. Two small dis-tricts, consisting of the parish of Alva and part ofthe parish of L

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