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Course River Forth |
The wide Forth floodplain
is covered with rich farmland. Before reclamation and widespread
field drainage this land was prone to flooding and, instead of arable
crops was left to pastures and stock rearing. Settlements occupied
the higher ground but are now spreading out in all directions. The
river is tidal up to Stirling and sailing ships used to dock there
in the Middle Ages. Further upstream, past Stirling, the marshland
known as Flanders Moss was drained in the 1800s and the silt washed
into the river made is banks higher and the river less deep than
before. |
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