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The following excerpt about the Le Cropt Parish was taken from The Topographical, Statistical and Historical Gazeteer of Scotland, Vol. 2 Page 234. LECROPT, * a parish of compact form, having about two-thirds of its extent in Perthshire, and about one-third in Stirlingshire, and lying, at its nearest point, within 1 1/2 mile of the town of Stirling. It is an oblong, stretching north-westward and south-eastward; and is bounded on the north-east by Dunblane; on the east by Logie; on the south by St. Ninians; on the south-west by Kincardine; and on the west of Kilmadock. Its mean length is about 2 3/4 mile; and its mean breadth about 1 3/4. The Teath traces the whole of the boundary on the south-west, a distance, in a straight line of 2 1/4 miles, and then falls into the forth; the united stream, or the Forth, traces the whole of it on the south, a distance of 1 mile in a straight line, but of about 2 along the channel; and the Allan traces the whole of it on the east, a distance, in a straight line, of 1 1/3 mil. The streams produce Salmon, trout, pikes, and perches. Across the Forth, after it begins to touch the parish, extends from bank to bank a ledge of rocks which terminates the flow of the tide and the navigableness of the river. On the rocky ledge are the well-known cruives (curves) of Craigforth, which, when kept in proper repair, produce a great capture of salmon. All the rivers, but especially the Allan, wear here richly ornamental dresses; and just after the Allan comes down upon the parish, are the sweet scenes of the Bridge of Allan and the circumjacent country. See ALLAN (Bridge of). Through the middle of the parish, lengthways, and almost from end to end, extends a beautiful bank. All the surface south and south-west of this is rich carse ground, without a single stone or pebble, tastefully enclosed, and in the fullest and most luxuriant cultivation. From the bank north-eastward the surface rises with a gentle ascent, partakes the character of what, in the vicinity of carse lands, is called dry field, is all enclosed either with stone walls, or hedge and ditch, and exhibits many opulent results of agricultural improvement. A great variety of thriving planted trees shelter and adorn the dry field; and a large remnant of an ancient natural forest, consisting chiefly of oaks, is cut twice in 24 years, and affords a plentiful supply of timber for the various purposes of husbandry. The carse is too valuable for grain crops to be more than very thinly sprinkled with trees. From the bisecting bank, and from the points of upland beyond it, magnificent prospects are obtained of the rich flat basin of the Teath and the Forth, and of the zone now of low heights, nof of bold hills, and now of grand mountain-summits which encinctures it. The parish is conspicous for the produce of the orchard and the ariary; and it has several grain mills, and mills for the manufacture of coarse paper. An artificial eminence on the east side of the parish seems to have been a post of the Romans, near the great road to the church at Ardoch. Near the elegant mansion of Kier, 3/4 of a mile north-west of the church, is one of the chain of rude forts, all called Keir's, whcih run along the north face of the strath of the Teath, and were built by the Caledonians to watch the motions of the troops stationed on the great Roman wall. In the immediate vicinity of the church are those very marked monuments of feudal times and jurisprudence, a Court-hill and a Gallow-hill. The road from Stirling to Callander traverses nearly the extreme length of the parish. Population of the Perthshire part in 1801, 260; in 1831, 189. Houses 33. Assessed property, in 1815 L1,790. Population of the Stirlingshire part in 1801, 248; 1815, 254. Houses 41. Assessed property in 1815, L3,383. Lecropt is in the prebytery of Dunblane, and synod of Perth and Stirling, Patron, Stirilng of Keir. Stipend L147 13s 8d;l glebe L16 10s. The church is a very beautiful modeern Gothic edifice. Schoolmasters salary L34 4s 4 1/2d, with about L12 fees, and about L3 other emoluments. There is an infant school. * Lecropt - or Lecroch, Letcroch, the half of the hill, in allusion to the configuration of the surface-anciently belonged to the monks of Cambuskenneth.
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