Saints in Scottish Place-Names
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Falkirk, parish
Grid reference
NS 887 800 (accurate position)
Six-figure easting & northing
288700 680000
Latitude
56.00006101310212
Longitude
-3.784858050633775
Nearby places
Falkirk, ~eccles, Falkirk (0 miles)
St Francis Xavier's Church, Falkirk (0.2 miles)
Marywynde, Falkirk (0.43 miles)
Lady's Mill, Falkirk (0.45 miles)
Bothkennar, ~eccles. BKX now Grangemouth (2.03 miles)
Object Classification
Parish (extant in 1975)
Notes
NGR for the site of the medieval church, demolished in 1810 (NMRS, Canmore ID: 46913).
Relationships with other parishes
Contains Denny, modern parish
Contains Denny, modern parish (formerly)
Contains Grangemouth, modern parish, aka Polmont (formerly)
Contains Muiravonside, modern parish (formerly)
Relationships with other places
Contains Catrin Burn, Falkirk
Contains Falkirk, ~eccles, Falkirk
Contains Lady's Mill, Falkirk
Contains Marywynde, Falkirk
Contains St Francis Xavier's Church, Falkirk
Contains St Helen's Loch, Falkirk
Parish TLA
FAK
County
Stirlingshire
Medieval diocese
St Andrews
Names
1 head-name linked to this place ?Falkirk
Head name
Falkirk
Place
Falkirk, parish
Certainty that this name applies to this place
Certain
The status of this name is
Current
Is this a current OS form? ?
No
Is this the original referent of the place?
No
Is the association of this name to this object hypothetical?
No
Relationships with other place names
Derives from Fawkirk, Falkirk, ~eccles, Falkirk
Place-name data
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Satellite map with labels:
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Modern OS map:
Ordnance Survey OpenData. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right (2010)
OS 1840-1880 map:
National Library of Scotland Historic Maps
OS 1920-1933 map:
National Library of Scotland Historic Maps
