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Alloa, General

Burgh (Medieval), General View, Town (Period Unassigned)

Site Name Alloa, General

Classification Burgh (Medieval), General View, Town (Period Unassigned)

Canmore ID 47206

Site Number NS89SE 45

NGR NS 88526 92615

NGR Description Centred NS 88526 92615

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Clackmannan
  • Parish Alloa
  • Former Region Central
  • Former District Clackmannan
  • Former County Clackmannanshire

Archaeology Notes

NS89SE 45 centred 88526 92615

In existence as a burgh of regality in 1497; de novo erected burgh of regality in 1620.

G S Pryde 1965.

Architecture Notes

NS89SE 45 centred on 88526 92615

NMRS Lorimer Collection

Proposed town improvements and municipal buildings (unexecuted), c.1919.

Preliminary drawings - see Lorimer Collection 'A'.

EXTERNAL REFERENCE:

Public Library (Scottish Room)

Alloa and its Environs by James Lothian - text

Scottish Record Office

Alloa, Meal Mill

Plan of a house included in a volume of accounts of Alloa Park estate.

Next Page B.

A note indicates that the intention was to alter a house for 'Meal Mill at Street'. Little actual indication that information A & B are related - but odd that they appear together at end of book.

[Volume of 1906- 1909] GD124/17/461

Alloa, Tolbooth

Repair of the Tolbooth doors, windows and stocks

'Particularly after Pretis who was hanged was there'.

Account from John Erskine, Clerk of Alloa, with Mr Watson.

1730 GD 124/17/282/1

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