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Plean, a village and a quoad sacra parish in St Ninians parish, Stirlingshire. The village, lying 3 miles SSE of Bannockburn, has a post office under Stirling, a public school, and an asylum or hospital for 30 old men, founded by Col. Francis Simpson, who died in 1831. Plean House is in the western vicinity of the village. The quoad sacra parish, constituted in 1878, is in the presbytery of Stirling and the synod of Perth and Stirling; the living is worth £289. Pop. (1881) of village, 369; of q. s. parish, 1037.—Ord. Sur., sh. 39, 1869.
(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)
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| Feature Description: | "a village and a quoad sacra parish" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Stirlingshire County |
| Place: | Plean |
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