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The white house in the distance is a gatehouse for Powis House, which is among the trees in the distance.
©Mike Pennington
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©Martin Jones
Dist:0.2km<br/>View of farmland to the East of the Wallace Monument.
©Darren Haddock
Dist:0.4km<br/>Spring, now closed off, in Craigmill
©Richard Webb
Dist:0.4km<br/>The path descends in a south easterly direction from the Wallace Monument.
©Trevor Harris
Dist:0.4km<br/>Alloa Road passing through Craigmill.
©Richard Webb
Dist:0.5km<br/>On Abbey Craig.
©Mike Pennington
Dist:0.5km<br/>In the woodland around the Wallace Monument.
©Mike Pennington
Dist:0.5km<br/>The crags of Abbey Craig (the hill with the Wallace Monument on it) overlook an optimistic scene. The railway is a building site with safety posters and that familiar safety fencing. Its being restored for passenger use between Stirling and Alloa. A small fightback against Dr Beeching. ----- The reopening of the railway led to the closure of this crossing. Now a new road has been built from Ladysneuk Road, meaning that only one crossing is required for Cambuskenneth and Broom.
©Richard Webb
Dist:0.5km<br/>Looking south down the A91, just beside Powis Manor Farm. The north bound traffic has been blocked with a farm Land Rover to allow the sheep to be walked along the road to first access road on left towards Manor Farm.
©Derek Ferris
Dist:0.5km<br/>The houses in the foreground are at Craigmill, the Forth meanders away into the distance and the huge bonded warehouse complex near Alloa is in the middle distance on the left.
©Mike Pennington
Dist:0.5km<br/>Electricity poles with a slant, thanks to the soft ground on the carse.
©Richard Webb
Dist:0.6km<br/>Crags on the hill that carries Stirling's favourite eyesore - the statue of Wallace. (The monument is a bit of a blot on the landscape too mind). The loose rock of these crags is prone to fall on the road below, which is protected by netting, barriers and a ban on climbing.
©Richard Webb
Dist:0.6km<br/>A view from the esplanade of Stirling Castle showing the Old Stirling Bridge over the River Forth and the Wallace Monument against the splendid backdrop of the Ochil Hills. "As this little, but very pleasant spot, was on the north side of the castle, we had from thence a most agreeable prospect indeed over the valley and the river; as it is truly beautiful, so it is what the people of Sterling justly boast of, and, indeed, seldom forget it, I mean the meanders, or reaches of the River Forth. They are so spacious, and return so near themselves, with so regular and exactly a sweep, that, I think, the like is not to be seen in Britain, if it is in Europe, especially where the river is so large also. (...) The form of this winding may be conceived of a little by the length of the way, for it is near twenty miles from Sterling to Alloway [Alloa] by water, and hardly four miles by land."-- Daniel Defoe, A Tour Thro' The Whole Island of Great Britain, 1724-6
©kim traynor
Dist:0.6km<br/>A view from the esplanade of Stirling Castle looking eastwards towards the Abbey Craig where the Wallace Monument, built in 1861, marks the spot where William Wallace and Andrew Moray are said to have lain in wait before the battle of Stirling Bridge against an English army in 1297. The wooden bridge which featured in the battle stood just upstream from the mediaeval stone bridge (c.1500) visible in the lower left-hand corner of the photograph. In 1746, one of the arches of the stone bridge was deliberately blown up to prevent the Jacobite army crossing the river to reach the town and the castle.
©kim traynor

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