It is served by Bannockburn Primary School, in the centre of the community, and Bannockburn High School in nearby Broomridge. The area contains most necessary amenities, including a library, and local shops. Bannockburn had a population of 7,352 at the time of the 2001 census. : 178–9 Growth of both Stirling and Bannockburn during the 19th and 20th centuries means that the two now form a contiguous conurbation, and Bannockburn was latterly incorporated into the city (then royal burgh) of Stirling. The route originally passed over the Old Bridge, until the construction in 1819 of a circular-arch stone bridge, built by engineer Thomas Telford, spanning the burn downstream of the battle site. The turnpike road between Edinburgh and Stirling was constructed in the 1750s and passed through Bannockburn. The woollen mills employed 7-800 people around 1880. The visit of King George IV to Edinburgh in 1822, and his insistence that the Clan chiefs attend his banquets and levees in their Clan tartans, prompted this reaction. Many of the so-called Clan tartans were created by the Wilsons in response to the needs of the Clan chiefs who, without their own authentic tartans, approached the Wilsons for suitable patterns. : 184–5 In the late 18th and early 19th centuries the Wilson family of Bannockburn designed and wove tartans for the British Army. Telford's circular-arch roadbridge over the Bannock Burnīannockburn village used to be famous for its carpet and tweed factories and woollen mills. In the year of 1746, after the Battle of Culloden, Bonnie Prince Charlie stayed in Bannockburn House where he met the future mother of his child. The dignity of the barony of Bannockburn is currently held by Hope Vere Anderson, a descendant of the Sandilands and Vere families of Sandilands and Lesmahagow, Lanarkshire who were the original Barons of Bannockburn in the 14th century. In previous generations tourists came to visit the site and look at the Borestone.
A large monument and visitor centre is located near the site of the battle. Land in the vicinity of Bannockburn town, probably between the Pelstream and Bannock burns (hence Bannockburn), was the site of the Battle of Bannockburn fought in 1314-one of the pivotal battles of the 13th/14th century Wars of Independence between the kingdoms of Scotland and England. It is named after the Bannock Burn, a stream running through the town before flowing into the River Forth. List of places UK Scotland 56☀5′N 3★5′W / 56.09°N 3.91°W / 56.09 -3.91īannockburn ( Scottish Gaelic Allt a' Bhonnaich) is an area immediately south of the centre of Stirling in Scotland.
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