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A vision of Britain through time
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Bonnybridge, a village partly in Denny but mostly in Falkirk parish, Stirlingshire, on Bonny Water and the Forth and Clyde Canal, ¾ mile N of the Edinburgh and Glasgow section of the North British railway, and 4 miles W of Falkirk. It has a station on the railway, a post office, with money order and savings' bank departments, a literary hall, a paper-mill, a saw-mill, 2iron-foundries, and a public school, which, with accommodation for 300 children, had (1879) an average attendance of 267, and a grant of £254,14s. 6d. Pop. (1871) 731,
(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: | Stirlingshire ScoCnty |
| Place: | Bonnybridge |
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