Balfron |
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700 years old |
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Glasgow visitors |
The village name “bail’-a-bhroin”, Balfron, means the town of mourning. |
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The first documentary reference to Balfron – one of the charters of the Abbey of Inchaffray – in 1303 alludes to the village as Buthbren and only later as Balfron. More… |
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The village was once a popular tourist resort where people came to spend their ‘fresh-air fortnight’ |
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Famous resident |
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All lit up |
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Logarithms |
The architect Alexander (Greek) Thomson was a native of Balfron. |
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The village claims to be Scotland’s first gaslit town. |
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John Napier, the inventor of logarithms, was born here in Balfron in 1550. |
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Star Wars |
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Abduction |
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Balfron coins and notes |
The residents of Balfron, share their village name with a well-known Star Wars planet. The fictional Balfron is an unwelcoming place inhabited by cave-dwelling folk and is also where Lando Calrissian met up with twin con artists, the Tonnika sisters after he met them at the High Stakes Casino. |
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In the year 1750 Rob Roy‘s son carried off Jean Kay, then a widow and heiress of Edinbellie, and Rob Oig, the youngest, who had married her, was hanged in Edinburgh three years afterwards on account of her abduction. |
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There was a time when Balfron issued its own currency. Click here for the story. |
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