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a merchant in Glasgow, bought the remodelled Gargunnock in 1835. His great-granddaughter, Miss Viola Stirling, was the last of the family to own and run the estate. On her death in 1989 she left Gargunnock to trustees, with the hope that it could be 'preserved and administered so as to exemplify and perpetuate the tradition of Scottish country life. It is also said that
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Gargunnock House and Estate are focal points of the village dating back to the 16th century. Starting life as a tower house, over the following 200 years wings were added with the final wing completed in 1794. Charles Stirling, the fifth son of an old and distinguished family and who had prospered as
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On Tuesday, July 6, 2021, the Gargunnock Village Store experienced a fire, leaving it vacant. In December 2023 the village community trust received £150,000 grant from the Scottish Land Fund to buy the shop with hopes to re-open it by September 2024.
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before reaching Stirling Bridge is situated just outside Gargunnock. This, coupled with the land condition and drainage around the feet of the Gargunnock hills, made Gargunnock the ideal location to build a farming settlement.
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The majority of pupils from Gargunnock Primary continue their secondary education at the nearby Stirling High School, with others attending Balfron High School.
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Gargunnock is also the home to the Gargunnock Show, founded in 1794 and hosted annually the show is one of the longest running in Scotland.
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More recently, during the nineteenth century Gargunnock was famous for its fine oak-spale baskets, until intensive
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time trials route went through the village with the Gargunnock Inn playing host as an "Official Event Fan Zone".
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at the time), setting up fort on the Kier Hill, to take control of this part of the river in advance of the
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on the outskirts of the village to protect this important ferry. It is believed that
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council area with an active community trust, seven miles (eleven kilometres) west of
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once played at the house as Charles Stirling's sister Jane was a pupil of his.
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removed the raw materials necessary for this trade and the industry moved to
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During the occupation of Scotland, the English posted a battalion in the
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is also said to have passed through the village on his travels.
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Gargunnock War Memorial was erected in 1919 to a design by Sir
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Several small burns flow down from the Gargunnock Hills
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Gargunnock is located in Stirling
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