Clackmannan
Clackmannan is a town and civil parish embeded in the Central Lowlands of Scotland. Situated within the Forth Valley, Clackmannan is 1.8 miles (2.9 km) south-east of Alloa and 3.2 miles (5.1 km) south of Tillicoultry. The community is within the county of Clackmannanshire, of which it was formerly the county town, till Alloa overtook it in dimension and importance. According to a 2009 estimate the population of the settlement of Clackmannan is 3,348 locals. The name of the town refers to the Stone of Manau or Stone of Mannan, a pre-Christian monolith that can be seen in the town square beside the Tolbooth or Tollbooth Tower, which dates from 1592. Throughout the 12th century, the area formed part of the lands managed by the abbots of Cambuskenneth. Later on it became associated with the Bruce household, who, throughout the 14th century, constructed a strategic tower-house. It still stands over the town according to Historic Scotland, but access is forbidden (due to subsidence). A crater on planet 253 Mathilde is called after Clackmannan. Due to the fact that Mathilde is a dark, carbonaceous body, its craters have been called after popular coalfields from throughout the globe. The Clackmannan Group is the name offered to a collection of rocks of late Dinantian as well as Namurian age put down throughout the Carboniferous duration in the Midland Valley of Scotland. The war memorial was developed by Sir Robert Lorimer in 1919.