Clackmannan
Clackmannan is a town as well as civil parish embeded in the Central Lowlands of Scotland. Positioned within the Forth Valley, Clackmannan is 1.8 miles (2.9 kilometres) south-east of Alloa and also 3.2 miles (5.1 km) south of Tillicoultry. The community is within the region of Clackmannanshire, of which it was previously the county town, up until Alloa overtook it in size as well as value. According to a 2009 estimate the population of the settlement of Clackmannan is 3,348 locals. The name of the town describes the Stone of Manau or Stone of Mannan, a pre-Christian monument that can be seen in the community square next to the Tolbooth or Tollbooth Tower, which dates from 1592. Throughout the 12th century, the area formed part of the lands controlled by the abbots of Cambuskenneth. Later it ended up being associated with the Bruce household, who, throughout the 14th century, constructed a critical tower-house. It still stands above the community according to Historic Scotland, yet entrance is prohibited (because of subsidence). A crater on planet 253 Mathilde is named after Clackmannan. Since Mathilde is a dark, carbonaceous body, its craters have been called after popular coalfields from across the globe. The Clackmannan Group is the name offered to a suite of rocks of late Dinantian and Namurian age put down during the Carboniferous period in the Midland Valley of Scotland. The war memorial was designed by Sir Robert Lorimer in 1919.
