Description
"Stirlingshire, west-midland county of Scotland; consists of a main portion
and two detached sections to the NE. included in Perthshire and Clackmannanshire;
is bounded N. by Perthshire, NE. by Clackmannanshire and a detached portion
of Perthshire, E. by the Firth of Forth and Linlithgowshire, S. by Linlithgowshire,
Lanarkshire, and detached part of Dumbartonshire, and W. by Dumbartonshire;
greatest length, NW. and SE., 46 miles; greatest breadth, NE. and SW., 22
miles; area, 286,338 ac., pop. 112,443. The E. part of the co. is flat,
finely wooded, and well cultivated; and the valley of the Forth along the
N. boundary includes some of the finest land in Scotland."
from John Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British
Isles 1887
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