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Stirling - alongside the meanders 2 Stirling has grown up around the castle built on the crag and tail volcanic vent in the middle distance. The meaners of the Forth helped restrict growth until relatively recent times. A study of OS maps would confirm the site and the constriction of transport routes to this "lowest" bridging point - an accolade which persisted until the construction of the Forth Rail Bridge in 1890 and the Kincardine Road Bridge in 1936. ..

Direction of ice flow

bridging point
sports fields
tail
crag
downstrean
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