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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
Stirling Stirling Nimmo's History of Stirlingshire
Statistical Account
Valuation Roll for 1855-6
Revd. [Reverend] Alexander Beith
J. Lockhart Esq.
Ebenezer Johnstone Esq.
The Parish of Stirling is in the Presbytery of Stirling, Synod of Perth and Stirling.
The etymology of the name is uncertain. The names Stirling, and Strivilin or Stryviling were, at one period, both in use, as we find them both occurring in the same Acts of Parliament. The latter name at an earlier period, almost uniformly occurs; and this in documents reaching back to the beginning of the 12th. century. On the other hand, it appears from a passage in William Wallace of Worcester's, Itinerary that, as early as his time, it was known by the name of Styrlyng. By Buchanan and others, who have Latinized the name, it has been called Sterlinum. On the present seal of the burgh, there are the words Sterlini Strivilense. The place was also, at a very early period, known by the name of Snowdon, which is said to signify the fortified hill on the river.
The figure of this parish is very irregular, depending in some places on the waving line of the Forth, in others on
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Parish of Stirling (part of).

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