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"ALLOA, a parish, containing a town of the
same name, also the villages of Cambus, Collyland, Tullibody,
and Holton Square, and comprising the two ancient parishes of
Alloa and Tullibody, in Clackmannanshire. It is bounded on the
north and west by the river Devon; on the south by the river
Forth; and on the east by the parishes of Tillicoultry and
Clackmannan. Its average length from east to west is about 4
miles; but its extent of bank along the winding Forth, here
slowly beginning to expand into firth, is about 5 1/2 miles; and
its breadth from north to south is about 2 miles." from the
Imperial Gazetteer of Scotland, edited by John Marius Wilson,
1868.
"Alloa, a police burgh and the largest town in the county, is
the administrative and commercial centre. At Alloa the neap tide
rises some 15 feet, the spring tide about 23 feet, the port
having the additional advantage of double, or, as they are
locally called, "leaky" tides...." "...Alloa was made an
independent port in 1840 and its district now includes the
smaller ports or creeks of Charlestown, Clackmannan Pow,
Inverkeithing, Kennetpans, Kincardine, St. David's and
Stirling." from Clackmannan and Kinross, J.P.Day B.A. B.Sc.,
1915. |
