Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Cambus

Cambus, a village in Alloa parish, Clackmannanshire, at the confluence of the Devon with the Forth, and on the Stirling and Dunfermline railway, 2½ miles WNW of Alloa town. It has a post office under Stirling, a station on the railway, a brewery, an extensive distillery, and a small harbour.


(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Alloa ScoP       Clackmannanshire ScoCnty       Stirlingshire ScoCnty
Place: Cambus

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