Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Blackbraes

Blackbraes, a village in the W of Muiravonside parish, Stirlingshire, 3¼ miles SSW of Falkirk. At it are a public school and a chapel of ease, which, built at a cost of £860, serves also for Shielhill in Polmont parish. Pop. (1861) 507, (1871) 478.


(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Muiravonside ScoP       Stirlingshire ScoCnty

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