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Extract from the Stirling Travel Guides:
Straddling the River Forth a few miles upstream from the estuary at Kincardine,
STIRLING
appears at first glance like a smaller version of Edinburgh. With its crag-top castle, steep, cobbled streets and mixed community of locals, students and tourists, it's an appealing place, though it lacks the cosmopolitan edge of its near neighbours Edinburgh and Glasgow.
Stirling was the scene of some of the most significant developments in the evolution of the Scottish nation. It was here that the Scots under William Wallace defeated the English at the Battle of Stirling Bridge in 1297, only to fight - and win again - under Ro...
read the whole Stirling Travel Guides...
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