Falkirk

Falkirk is an expansive town in the Central Lowlands of Scotland, truly inside the district of Stirlingshire. It lies in the Forth Valley, 23.3 miles north-west of Edinburgh and 20.5 miles north-east of Glasgow. Falkirk had an occupant populace of 32,422 at the 2001 UK Census. The number of inhabitants in the town had ascended to 34,570 as indicated by a 2008 gauge, making it the twentieth most crowded settlement in Scotland. Falkirk is the primary town and authoritative focus of the Falkirk committee territory, which has a general populace of 156,800 and inholds the adjacent towns of Grangemouth, Bo'ness, Denny, Larbert and Stenhousemuir.

The town is at the intersection of the Forth and Clyde and Union Canals, an area which demonstrated key to its development as a focal point of substantial industry amid the Industrial Revolution. In the 18^th and 19^th hundreds of years, Falkirk was at the focal point of the iron and steel industry, supported by the Carron Company in adjacent Carron. The organization was in charge of making carronades for the Royal Navy and later made column boxes. Inside the most recent fifty years, overwhelming industry has melted away, and the economy depends progressively on retail and tourism. In spite of this, Falkirk remains the home of numerous global organizations like Alexander Dennis; the biggest transport generation organization in the United Kingdom.