<body BGCOLOR="#CCFFFF"> <h3><center><b>Your Browser does not support frames - try this <a HREF="SAfalkindex.htm">index</a></b><br> Use the back button in your browser to navigate back here</center></h3> <h3><center><b><font SIZE="4">STIRLINGSHIRE - STATISTICAL ACCOUNT 1841</font> </b></center></h3> <h2><center><b><font SIZE="4">PARISH OF FALKIRK </font> </b></center></h2> <hr> <h4><center><b> PRESBYTERY OF LINLITHGOW, SYNOD OF LOTHIAN AND TWEEDDALE</b> </center></h4> <h3><center><b> THE REV. WILLIAM BEGG, MINISTER</b> </center></h3> <h3><center><b> THE REV. THOMAS GORDON, 2nd Congregation, MINISTER</b> </center></h3> <h3><center><b> THE REV. JOHN DEMPSTER, Grangemouth, MINISTER</b> </center></h3> <p> 1.Topography and Natural History.<p> <i>Name, Boundaries.etc.</i>-- Falkirk appears to have been a town of some note in the eleventh century. The origin and etymology of the name are involved in much obscurity. The town is supposed to have been at one time denominated <i>Ecclesbrae</i>, or the Church on the Brow, as descriptive of its situation. In the Gaelic language it is called <i>Eglais Bhris</i>, or the fallen church, and sometimes <i>Eglais bhrec</i>, the spotted church. The name last mentioned has been translated Vario Sacello, and as such appears in charters of a comparatively recent date, supposed to have arisen from the colour of the stones used in the building, or from the different kinds of architecture of which it is composed. ......... <p> <i>Extent</i> --....<p> <i>Boundaries</i>-- ........... <hr> <table BORDER="4"> <tr> <td WIDTH="130"><b><a HREF="#TOP"> <img SRC="toppage.gif" ALT="Top of Page" WIDTH="76" HEIGHT="30"></a></b> </td> <td WIDTH="130" ALIGN="CENTER"><b><a HREF="mapstirl00.htm"> <img SRC="index.gif" ALT="Back to Stirlingshire Map" WIDTH="76" HEIGHT="30"></a></b> </td> <td WIDTH="130" ALIGN="CENTER"><b><a HREF="../testhome.htm"> <img SRC="home.gif" ALT="Tom's Home" WIDTH="76" HEIGHT="30"></a></b> </td> <td WIDTH="130" ALIGN="CENTER"><a HREF="../guestbook.htm"> <img SRC="tomsbook.gif" ALT="Sign Guestbook" WIDTH="56" HEIGHT="26"></a> </td> <td WIDTH="130" ALIGN="CENTER"><a HREF="../book.htm"> <img SRC="turnbook.gif" ALT="View Guestbook" WIDTH="37" HEIGHT="30"></a> </td> <td WIDTH="130" ALIGN="RIGHT"> <a HREF="MAILTO:tom.paterson@ukonline.co.uk"> <img SRC="email.gif" ALT="Send Mail to Tom Paterson" WIDTH="89" HEIGHT="26"></a> </td></tr> </table> <p> <hr> </body>