Clackmannan and Kinross . shopsserving the more essential needs of the immediate neigh-bourhood. A glance at the accompanying sketch mapshows that the actual distribution of towns does fulfil suchan expectation, but there are some further considerationsto be noted. The place where the Forth ceases to windis peculiarly suitable for the growth of a river port andhere, in fact, grew up Alloa, a town which now holdsmore than half the burghal population of the county. Inorder to include Alloa, the southern or Dunfermline roadleaves the direct line to bend southwards. The precisepositions of the tow
Clackmannan and Kinross . shopsserving the more essential needs of the immediate neigh-bourhood. A glance at the accompanying sketch mapshows that the actual distribution of towns does fulfil suchan expectation, but there are some further considerationsto be noted. The place where the Forth ceases to windis peculiarly suitable for the growth of a river port andhere, in fact, grew up Alloa, a town which now holdsmore than half the burghal population of the county. Inorder to include Alloa, the southern or Dunfermline roadleaves the direct line to bend southwards. The precisepositions of the towns on the northern or Kinross roadare obviously determined by the hillside burns. Anabundant supply of pure water is always a desideratum, POPULATION COMMUNICATIONS 03 and was espcciallv favourable to the woollen imliistr).A secondary system of roads connects the towns on thenorthern highway with those on the southern. That the railway lines do not exactly correspond tothe main roads is a consequence of the time and order. Sketch-map of Clackmannanshire, showing the influence ofthe physical features on the lines of communication of their development. The railway corresponding to theeasier southern road was the first to be constructed. Thiswas the Stirling and Dunfermline railway opened to trafficin 1850 ; with, in 1851, a branch line from Alloa toTillicoultry, at that time a prosperous town, whose rapid 64 CLACKMANNANSHIRE growth promised considerable traffic. When the moredifficult construction of the railway corresponding to thenorthern road along the Devon valley was undertaken,the promoters, finding Tillicoultry already connected withAlloa, preferred to start their line from Tillicoultry insteadof from Stirling. Thus the Stirling-to-Tillicoultry sectionof the north road has no railway corresponding ; though,in 1863, the gap was partly filled up by the short branchwhich, leaving the Dunfermline line at Cambus, runsthrough Menstrie to Alva. The Devon valley line wasfinally op
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