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River Carron Carron Water
Carron Water
Carron Water
Carron Water
"River Carron"
Johnston's Co [County] Map
New Statistical Account
James Ewing, Craigniven
Patrick Yuill Kilsyth
See Authorities and Comments of Larbert, Bothkennar & Falkirk Phs [Parishes]
022.12 "A river in Stirlingshire rising from the "Campsie Hills" and flows to the East to the Upper part of the South bank of the Firth of Forth. In its course it turns several mills, waters several bleachfields, and supplies Carron Iron Works with water, The thriving Seaport of Grangemouth lies on its Southern bank near its embochure where the small river Grange and the Forth and Clyde Canal drop into it, It runs altogether about 14 miles and the country through which it passes is flat."
Chambers' Gazetteer of Scotland

It forms the whole of the Northern boundary of this parish, and is here a stream of considerable importance.

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Co [County] Stirling -- Ph [Parish] Kilsyth

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