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Stirlingshire is an historic county of Scotland lying on both sides of the boundary-line between the southern and the central of the three great physical divisions of Scotland, and on both sides also of the boundary between the Lowlands and the Highlands.
Two small districts, consisting of the parish of Alva, and part of the paris of Logie, lie in detached positions a little way to the north, and are dovetailed into the marches of Perthshire and Clackmannanshire.
The rest of the county is bounded on the north by Perthshire; on the north-east by the Forth, which divides it from Clackmannanshire, and the detached or Culross section of Perthshire; on the east and south-east by Linlithgowshire; on the south by Lanarkshire and the detached or Cumbernauld and Kirkintilloch section of Dumbartonshire; on the south-west by the main body of Dumbartonshire; and on the west by Loch Lomond, which divides it from Dumbartonshire.
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Clackmannanshire, the smallest County of Scotland, extending 10 miles N. and S. between the main body of Perthshire and the river Forth, and 11 miles E. and W. between the counties of Stirling and Fife; pop. 25,680. The surface rises from the Forth by an easy ascent, broken by gentle undulations and by the valley of the river Devon, to the Ochil Hills, which extend along the N. border. These hills afford excellent pasturage; the low grounds are well cultivated. Coal is raised in the Devon valley; the towns of Alloa and Tillicoultry have woollen manufacturers.
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