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

inhabitants, who may be supposed on the whole to be sufficiently
conversant with all matters of local interest, past and present, yet it
will not therefore be the less necessary for the sake of the many
thousand visitors who, attracted by its beautifully picturesque situation,
and the unrivalled grandeur of its surrounding scenery, flow into
Stirling from day to day, many of them to take up their residence for
a longer or shorter period amongst us, and naturally enough desire not
only to know the names and j)rofessions of the more outstanding of our
townsfolks and men of business, but also to form some little acquaint-
ance with whatever is memorable or note-worthy in its history.
Accordingly we have deemed it not out of place to give the following
very brief and necessarily meagre notices of the town and Castle, as
also of some of the more prominent places in the neighbourhood, which
may not be unacceptable to strangers or other parties who may wish
for such information as we have here endeavoured to supply.