Camelon
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Camelon Scottish Gaelic Camlan |
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| Coordinates | 56 ° 0 ′ N , 3 ° 50 ′ W | ||
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| Residents | 3272 (1991 census) | ||
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| Post town | FALKIRK | ||
| ZIP code section | FK1 | ||
| prefix | 01324 | ||
| Part of the country | Scotland | ||
| Council area | Falkirk | ||
| British Parliament | Falkirk | ||
| Scottish Parliament | Falkirk West | ||
Camelon ( Gaelic : Camlan ) is a town in the Scottish council area of Falkirk . It is located in the traditional county of Stirlingshire about three kilometers west of Falkirk city center and about twelve kilometers southeast of Stirling in the Central Belt . Camelon is on the Forth and Clyde Canal and the Carron River . In 1991 Camelon had 3272 inhabitants. Today Camelon is a western part of Falkirk.
history
The Antonine Wall runs south of Camelon and remains of Roman settlement have been found in the area of Camelon. Picts are said to have settled in the area between the retreat of the Romans and the 9th century . The Carron could have been navigable as far as Camelon at that time. This seems plausible as the Firth of Forth likely extended further into the land mass at the time. An anchor was found at Camelon.
Camelon developed with the construction of the Forth and Clyde Canal in the 1770s. Between 1798 and 1861 the whiskey distillery of the same name was operated in Camelon . It was eventually abandoned and some of the buildings continued to be used by the nearby Rosebank distillery. At Camelon, the Forth and Clyde Canal were united with the Union Canal via numerous locks . In 2002 the Falkirk Wheel ship lift was opened west of Camelon and replaced the lock systems.
religion
The congregations of Irving and St John's of the Church of Scotland were merged in 2003 to form Camelon Parish Church with almost 400 members.
Designed by Gillespie, Kidd & Coia , St Mary of the Angels Catholic Church was completed in 1961 and has been a Category A Monument since 1994 . The parish, which covers much of Falkirk, has 1,500 members and is part of the Archdiocese of Saint Andrews and Edinburgh .
traffic
The A9 , the most important trunk road in the Scottish Highlands , runs through Plean on its way from Falkirk to Thurso . The M9 , M80 and M876 motorways run just a few kilometers north and northwest. Camelon has its own train station, which is served by First ScotRail on the Edinburgh to Dunblane Line and the Cumbernauld Line .
Falkirk Wheel
The Forth and Clyde Canal at Camelon
Camelon Railway Station
literature
- Kenneth Arthur Steer: CAMELON Stirlingshire, Scotland . In: Richard Stillwell et al. a. (Ed.): The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ 1976, ISBN 0-691-03542-3 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Information from the Scottish Parliament
- ↑ a b Camelon. Falkirk. In: David Munro, Bruce Gittings: Scotland. An Encyclopedia of Places & Landscapes. Collins et al., Glasgow 2006, ISBN 0-00-472466-6 .
- ↑ Statistical data
- ↑ Camelon. In: Francis H. Groome: Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Survey of Scottish Topography, Statistical, Biographical and Historical. Volume 1: (A - Coru). Thomas C. Jack, Grange Publishing Works, Edinburgh et al. 1882, p. 226.
- ↑ Entry on the Rosebank distillery on maltmadness.com