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Extract from the Falkirk Travel Guides:
Southeast of Stirling along the south bank of the widening Forth Estuary, farmland gives way to industry, notably BP's gargantuan petrochemical plant nearby at Grangemouth. The lights and fires of the refineries are spectacular at night, and inspired Bertrand Tavernier to make his dour 1979 sci-fi film
Death Watch
in Scotland. Strangely, given its nondescript industrial surroundings,
FALKIRK
- located about halfway between Stirling and Edinburgh on the M9 motorway - has a good deal of visible history, going right back to the remains of the Roman Antonine wall. It was also the site of two major battles, one in 1298, w...
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