Grangemouth, modern parish, aka Polmont

Grid reference

NS 936 792 (accurate position)

Six-figure easting & northing

293600 679200

Latitude

55.99398753488847

Longitude

-3.7060028849038593

County

Stirlingshire

Nearby places

St Mary's Chapel, Polmont, Grangemouth (0 miles)

Muiravonside, modern parish (1.85 miles)

Lady's Mill, Falkirk (2.67 miles)

Bo'ness, former parish, aka Kinneil, BCN (2.84 miles)

St Morgan's Seat, Muiravonside (2.98 miles)

Object Classification

Parish (extant in 1975)

Notes

NGR for Polmont Old Parish Church. It was built in 1732. A chapel of the BVM at Polmont is mentioned in 1498, but there is no evidence to connect it to this or any other site (NMRS).

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Relationships with other parishes

Contains Bothkennar, former parish, Grangemouth

Within Falkirk, parish (formerly)

Contains Grangemouth, modern parish, aka Polmont

Within Grangemouth, modern parish, aka Polmont

Relationships with other places

Contains Bothkennar, ~eccles. BKX now Grangemouth

Contains Bothkennar, settlement BKX, Grangemouth

Contains St Mary's Chapel, Polmont, Grangemouth

Parish details

Grangemouth or Polmont separated from Falkirk FAL in 1724, and including Bothkenner BKX

Parish TLA

GRM

County

Stirlingshire

Parish notes

Also known as Polmont, it was created out of the large medieval parish of Falkirk in 1725, occupying the lands which prior to the Reformation had formed the barony of Abbotskerse, but including the lands of Inch, which had belonged to Bothkenner (owing to a change in course of the Carron). Reid 1993, 85-6. Note that Bothkenner BKX seems still to have existed when Grangemouth was created. Later the whole of that medieval parish was incorporated into Grangemouth.