Clackmannanshire Fact No1
Posted: Monday 19 January, 2009
My chum, Claire, loaned me abook called " I never knew that about Scotland" by Christopher Winn. As it is Homecoming 2009, celebrating the 250th anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns, I shall dazzle you periodically with fascinating facts about Scotland.
I shall start with my home county of Clackmannanshire!
"Clackmannanshire is the smallest county in the British Isles covering an area of just 55 square miles (14,245 hectares). In the late 18th century, one third of Scotland's total coal production was exported through Alloa, the county town."
We may be small, but we've got hills (Ben Cleuch at 2,363 feet is the highest), rivers Devon, Black Devon and Forth, estuary, inland water at Gartmorn Dam (incidentally the oldest man-made reservoir in Scotland still in use. It was created in 1713 by the Earl of Mar to provide water power for the pumps in his coal-mines). However, we don't have any mines or a harbour any more.
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