Falkirk
a parliamentary and muparliamentary and mulingshire in Scotland. It is on the North British railway and is connected with the Clyde canal. Its seaport is Grangemouth, east and west coasts by the Forth and on the Firth of Forth, about three miles distant. The city has several notable buildings, including a town hall , free of the Scotch iron foundry trade. In the library, and a hospital. It is the center neighborhood are important coal mines founded in the 11th century, and in 1298 and large distilleries. The town was between the English under Edward I. it was the scene of an important battle and the Scotch under William Wallace, FALKLAND ISLANDS in which the latter were defeated. Pop. (1911) 33,574; (1918) (est.) 35,251.