Towns > Stirling > 1866 - Threepenny guide & directory for Stirling, Bridge of Allan, etc.

ADDRESS.
A Directory for the town of Stirling has often been called for by
strangers and others, and is universally believed to be a desideratum
which ought to be supplied. Other Scottish towns, possessing fewer
natural attractions, and of immeasurably less historical note, as well as
of less importance even in a commercial point of view, have for years
been issuing their several Directories, which we believe have been found
of much general utility for business purposes, and are now reckoned among
the indispensables of their respective localities. It has, therefore, as
well as for other reasons which more immediately concern ourselves as
a community, been matter of surprise to not a few that a flourishing
market town such as ours, with its fourteen thousand inhabitants, the
oldest, or at least one of the oldest of our royal burghs, and the centre,
•we may say, of Scotland, and of one of Scotland's richest and most
fertile agricultural districts, should, up to this time, be without such
a great public convenience as a complete, accurate Directory.
By such considerations we have been led to attempt the present
publication, on which, we need hardly say, we have bestowed some
considerable care and pains, and trust it will be found as full and
accurate in its details as the nature of such a compilation will admit.
It will, no doubt, be expected that in a Directory for Stirling some
concise account should be given of the town, including the Castle, and
other obiects of public interest connected with the place. And although
this may not be very generally needed for the information of the