place

South Alloa

Villages in Falkirk (council area)
Kersie Terrace, South Alloa (geograph 4240436)
Kersie Terrace, South Alloa (geograph 4240436)

South Alloa is a small village which lies in the far north of the Falkirk council area of Scotland. The village is on the south bank of the River Forth where the river empties and widens to form the Firth of Forth. To the west of the village lies the island of Alloa Inch, and directly to the north across the Forth is the town of Alloa, located 0.8 miles (1.3 km) away. Upstream and 5 miles (8.0 km) west-northwest is the city of Stirling and 7.3 miles (11.7 km) south is Falkirk, the principal town of the Falkirk council area. It lies just inside the council boundary line between Falkirk and Stirling councils. The village lies off the A905 road between Dunmore and Throsk. The village is at a former ferry crossing point across the River Forth to Alloa. Between 1850 and 1885 South Alloa railway station was the terminus of a line originally built by Scottish Central Railway.The village had 112 residents in 2011, a 49% increase since the 2001 census.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article South Alloa (License: CC BY-SA 3.0, Authors, Images).

South Alloa
Ferry Road,

Geographical coordinates (GPS) Address Nearby Places
placeShow on map

Wikipedia: South AlloaContinue reading on Wikipedia

Geographical coordinates (GPS)

Latitude Longitude
N 56.102245 ° E -3.80994 °
placeShow on map

Address

Ferry Road 2
FK7 7LB
Scotland, United Kingdom
mapOpen on Google Maps

Kersie Terrace, South Alloa (geograph 4240436)
Kersie Terrace, South Alloa (geograph 4240436)
Share experience

Nearby Places

St Mungo's Parish Church
St Mungo's Parish Church

The church is named after Saint Mungo (also known as Saint Kentigern), patron saint and founder of the city of Glasgow. It belongs to the Church of Scotland Presbytery of Stirling and serves the parish of Alloa. A chapel dedicated to St Mungo is thought to have been erected during the fourteenth or fifteenth-century, which became dependent upon the Parish of Tullibody. Alloa had grown into a parish in its own right by 1600 when the Act of Assembly united the two parishes. In 1680, the original chapel was rebuilt and enlarged. The current church replaces the old parish church from the seventeenth-century which had been deemed much too small for the congregation for over seventy years and was declared ruinous and unsafe in August 1815. The condition of the old church was so bad that services were often being held in the open air rather than risking injury to the congregation The decision was finally made to abandon the old building and find a site for a new parish church. The Erskine family donated land at Bedford Place and work on the new St Mungo's church began in 1817. The church congregation temporarily worshipped in the Tabernacle until the completion in 1819 of the new church. Since land was judged at the time to have too great a value to the living to be set aside for the dead, no graveyard was planned or added to the new church. The more elaborate scale and design of the new building was intended to reflect the increased size and prosperity of the nineteenth-century congregation. The church was one of the largest in Scotland at the time it was built.