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Banton, a village in Kilsyth parish, Stirlingshire, 2½ miles NE by E of Kilsyth town. It has a post office under Denny, and it is inhabited principally by colliers and ironstone miners. Low Banton hamlet lies ½ mile to the S, and ¼ further SSE is a chapel of ease, erected in 1880 into the church of a quoad sacra parish. A public school, with accommodation for 173 children, had (1879) an average attendance of 165, and a grant of £153,11s. 11d. Pop. of quoad sacra parish (1881) 793.
(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)
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| Feature Description: | "a village" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Kilsyth ScoP Stirlingshire ScoCnty |
| Place: | Banton |
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