Clackmannan
Clackmannan is a village as well as civil parish embeded 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 km) south of Tillicoultry. The town is within the region of Clackmannanshire, of which it was formerly the county town, up until Alloa surpassed it in dimension as well as relevance. According to a 2009 quote the population of the settlement of Clackmannan is 3,348 homeowners. The name of the town describes the Stone of Manau or Stone of Mannan, a pre-Christian monolith that can be seen in the community square close to the Tolbooth or Tollbooth Tower, which dates from 1592. Throughout the 12th century, the location created part of the lands regulated by the abbots of Cambuskenneth. Later it came to be associated with the Bruce household, who, throughout the 14th century, developed a calculated tower-house. It still stands above the community according to Historic Scotland, but entrance is restricted (due to subsidence). A crater on planet 253 Mathilde is named after Clackmannan. Because Mathilde is a dark, carbonaceous body, its craters have been called after well-known coalfields from across the world. The Clackmannan Team is the name provided to a suite of rocks of late Dinantian as well as Namurian age laid down during the Carboniferous period in the Midland Valley of Scotland. The war memorial was made by Sir Robert Lorimer in 1919.