Callendar Park, Falkirk

FALKIRK

Falkirk is a large town in the Central Lowlands of Scotland, historically within the county of Stirlingshire.

The town is at the junction of the Forth and Clyde and Union Canals, a location which proved key to its growth as a centre of heavy industry during the Industrial Revolution. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Falkirk was at the centre of the iron and steel industry, underpinned by the Carron Company in nearby Carron.

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