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  2. Stirling Old Bridge - Wikipedia

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    In December 1745 General Blakeney, lieutenant governor of Stirling Castle, had one of the bridge arches destroyed to hinder the movement of the Jacobite Army. [3]: 160 The destroyed arch was rebuilt in 1749. [4] [5] In May 1833 the adjacent new road bridge was opened to traffic and the Old Bridge was closed to wheeled traffic. [1] [3]: 196

  3. River Forth - Wikipedia

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    The River Forth is a major river in central Scotland, 47 km (29 mi) long, which drains into the North Sea on the east coast of the country. Its drainage basin covers much of Stirlingshire in Scotland's Central Belt. [1] The Gaelic name for the upper reach of the river, above Stirling, is Abhainn Dubh, meaning "black river".

  4. File:River Forth at Riverside, Stirling - geograph.org.uk ...

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    English: River Forth at Riverside, Stirling Looking from the Stirling Rowing Club towards the railway bridge. Red Grouse, Ratho Princess, and a Rinker 250 in the ...

  5. Bannock Burn - Wikipedia

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    The Bannock flows eastward and enters the River Forth to the east of Stirling, close to the site of the Battle of Bannockburn (1314), about 7.58 miles (12.20 km) from its source. The burn itself meanders and is considerably longer. A nearby town, nowadays a suburb of Stirling, is accordingly called Bannockburn.

  6. National Register of Historic Places listings in eastern ...

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    Southwest of Devault at the junction of Moores Road and Pennsylvania Route 401: East Whiteland Township: 80: Maj. Gen. Lord Stirling Quarters: Maj. Gen. Lord Stirling Quarters: February 15, 1974 : South of Valley Forge on Yellow Springs Road

  7. Kincardine Bridge - Wikipedia

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    It was the first road crossing of the River Forth downstream of Stirling, completed nearly thirty years before the Forth Road Bridge, which stands fifteen miles (24 km) to the south-east. It first opened to traffic on 29 October 1936.

  8. Stirling - Wikipedia

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    Located on the River Forth, Stirling is the administrative centre for the Stirling council area, and is traditionally the county town and historic county of Stirlingshire. Proverbially it is the strategically important "Gateway to the Highlands". It has been said that "Stirling, like a huge brooch clasps Highlands and Lowlands together".

  9. List of rivers of Pennsylvania - Wikipedia

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    USGS Hydrologic Unit Map - State of Pennsylvania (1974) Shaw, Lewis C. (June 1984). Pennsylvania Gazetteer of Streams Part II (Water Resources Bulletin No. 16). Prepared in Cooperation with the United States Department of the Interior Geological Survey (1st ed.).