Clackmannan
Clackmannan is a small town and also civil parish embeded in the Central Lowlands of Scotland. Located within the Forth Valley, Clackmannan is 1.8 miles (2.9 km) south-east of Alloa as well as 3.2 miles (5.1 km) south of Tillicoultry. The community is within the area of Clackmannanshire, of which it was previously the county town, up until Alloa overtook it in dimension as well as importance. According to a 2009 estimate the population of the settlement of Clackmannan is 3,348 homeowners. The name of the community refers to the Stone of Manau or Stone of Mannan, a pre-Christian monolith that can be seen in the community square close to the Tolbooth or Tollbooth Tower, which dates from 1592. Throughout the 12th century, the area developed part of the lands managed by the abbots of Cambuskenneth. Later it came to be associated with the Bruce household, that, throughout the 14th century, developed a critical tower-house. It still stands above the community according to Historic Scotland, however entrance is restricted (due to decrease). A crater on asteroid 253 Mathilde is named after Clackmannan. Since Mathilde is a dark, carbonaceous body, its craters have been named after famous coalfields from throughout the world. The Clackmannan Team is the name offered to a suite of rocks of late Dinantian as well as Namurian age put down during the Carboniferous period in the Midland Valley of Scotland. The war memorial was designed by Sir Robert Lorimer in 1919.