Clackmannan
Clackmannan is a town and also civil parish set in the Central Lowlands of Scotland. Situated within the Forth Valley, Clackmannan is 1.8 miles (2.9 kilometres) south-east of Alloa as well as 3.2 miles (5.1 kilometres) south of Tillicoultry. The community is within the region of Clackmannanshire, of which it was previously the county town, until Alloa overtook it in size and also relevance. According to a 2009 quote the population of the negotiation of Clackmannan is 3,348 citizens. 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 next to the Tolbooth or Tollbooth Tower, which dates from 1592. Throughout the 12th century, the location created part of the lands controlled by the abbots of Cambuskenneth. Later on it came to be related to the Bruce household, who, throughout the 14th century, developed a strategic tower-house. It still stands above the community according to Historic Scotland, yet entry is restricted (due to subsidence). A crater on asteroid 253 Mathilde is named after Clackmannan. Because Mathilde is a dark, carbonaceous body, its craters have actually been called after well-known coalfields from throughout the globe. The Clackmannan Group is the name provided to a suite of rocks of late Dinantian and Namurian age laid down during the Carboniferous duration in the Midland Valley of Scotland. The war memorial was developed by Sir Robert Lorimer in 1919.