A84 North Kersebonny This leaflet is intended to help you explore Stirling Xpert Xplorer Heritage Trails and enjoy Stirling as a “Walkable City”. Cambusbarron ROUTE - 2.3 mile / 3.66km Key Falleninch (approx. 50 minutes at an average walking pace) The trails on the map allow you to enjoy and plan circular Heritage Trail Bus Stop Heritage Trail From the Community Centre car park cross routes. The pink core paths are additional routes to enjoy A811 the area. the road and follow the main road past Bruce Start of Xplorer Trail Railway Station (city centre) King’s Park Memorial Church. Take your first left into Murray Dumbarton Rd Farm Visit travelinescotland.com to help you plan your The Core Path A811 HomesteaBattlefieldd journey to, in and around Stirling. Place and then your first right along Thomson Bungalow Interpretation Board Place. Continue along the path past the primary Church school until you reach Quarry Road. Parking Duchray Golf Course Here you can decide to visit Gillies Hill. For this trail South Kersebonny King’s Park Murrayshall Steading go down Quarry Road to Touch Road. Cross the Lime Works road and turn right back towards the village. Hollandbush 1 Cemetery A little further along Touch Road turn left down the Hayford Mills steps into the park. This is a narrow path which Douglas Terr Welcome to the leads you to the edge of playing fields within the To City park. Continue along the edge of the playing fields Centre Cambusbarron Football nd hill Rd Visit walkit.com to help you plan your way around Ground he rk Gartur rt Bi to the bridge at the northern entrance to the park Lodge Stirling on foot. Main St No Heritage Trail at Mill Park Road. Cross the road and follow the Touch Rd Remember to follow the Scottish Outdoor Access Rd School road past Hayford Mills and round to the right ry Mu Community Code while exploring the Stirling Heritage Trails. Centre along a farm track. rr King George Quar ay Pl Park Old Drove Road Along with this leaflet, there are leaflets on Gillies Barbour goes Turn left at North End and cross over the M9 ace footbridge. At the top of the slope, turn right along Hill to help you explore Cambusbarron and its on to suggest Clayhill Cambusbarron Cottage surrounding areas. Douglas Terrace to Birkhill Road. Turn right and Quarry that the Sma’ (Disused) follow this route back to the village, cross over Burial Folk played a Ground the motorway bridge and keep to the right hand Gillies Hill key role in the side where you will come to the George Smith Seven latter stages Sisters To the west of the village you will find Gillies Hill. Path opposite the park. Turn right down this path Its name comes from the Gaelic word “ghillies” of the battle. to Bruce’s Well. Cross the small bridge to the and refers to the servants, cooks, blacksmiths, Sensing a memorial and panel. Gillies Hill armourers and other trades necessary to Scottish victory, they advanced towards the battle Go up the steps and join the main street again. accompany an army. The army was that of Robert field to watch the closing stages and secure the Turn left and cross the road to King George Park. spoils of war. The English, however, perceived Murrayshall Quarry the Bruce, who is said to have hid his ghillies in this Go through the stone entrance gate and past the (Whinstone) area during the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314. Poet them to be a reserve force, sent in to reinforce memorial well. Stay to the right and at the top of John Barbour, writing a century after battle, tells us Bruce. Already demoralised, this is said to be the Ti This leaflet is one of many produced in partnership with the slope turn right again back to the Community nkers’ Lo Stirling’s communities to help you explore the rich and that Bruce: moment many of the English realised the fight was Centre car park. an varied heritage of our wonderful city. You’ll find them at lost and fled the battlefield. www.stirlingheritagetrails.co.uk Syne all the small folk and vital N For led walks in the area see the Stirling Walking Network He sent with harnes and victual Graystale at www.activestirling.org.uk Into the park, well far him fara, And fra the battles gart them ga: They held their way to a valley © Crown Copyright and Database right 2014. 1| Gillies Hill from North Third Road, © K Ratcliffe www.stirlingheritagetrails.co.uk All rights reserved. Ordnance Survey lic. 100020780 www.stirlingheritagetrails.co.uk Out of the fight of the batttaley 2| Bruce Memorial Church The Abbot of Inchaffray accompanied Bruce and Bruce Memorial Church and Local Voices 1850s from the spoil heap of the lime mine there. took holy water away with him to bless the Scottish Local historian Peter Paterson has been recording Descend Quarry Road to Touch Road and head army before the battle, sprinkling it onto the War Memorial back toward the village. You’ll pass Pin Wright’s The Bruce Memorial Church is named after Robert the history of Cambusbarron for many years. Here battlefield. Because of that great victory, it became Fields, supposedly given to him after his skills the Bruce’s visit to the village. The church was built is one of his favourite walks that takes you from the known as Bruce’s Well. as a joiner are said to have helped collapse the in 1910 as a permanent home for the congregation Community Centre to Bruce’s Well. bridge during the Battle of Stirling Bridge in 1297. Ironically, in Victorian times, the Well may have which originally met in an old weaving shed within “From the Community Turn into Mill Park Road and in the adjacent field become a source of disease within the village. In the village. The War Memorial was unveiled in Centre car park, you’ll was once the entrance to the Lime Mine under 1870, a local doctor, Dr Moodie claimed that 116 October 1920 by the local Laird, Major Murray of first see the Schoolhouse, Gillies Hill. You can see the lime kilns if you follow cases of fever and 52 deaths in 15 months were Polmaise Castle. Major Murray’s twenty year old home of John Grierson, Mill Road to Hollandbush, the 90 degree turning, down to poor son was the first Cambusbarron the father of the modern and then cut left. You’ll pass Hayford Mills, which sanitation within solider killed in the First World documentary. Next to that in recent years has been turned into housing. At The Bonnety Tree Cambusbarron. Polmaise and Touchadam Estate War in September 1914, just two is the Bruce Memorial the end of Mill Road, turn left at North The Bonnety Tree is an ancient Scots Pine tree The streets had In 1369, a charter granted Sir Andrew Moray the months after the conflict began. Church and the village War End, cross over the M9 bridge and you’ll which, till the early 1960s, grew on a cliff face on open sewer land around Cambusbarron and over the years, it Memorial. Continue along come to Douglas Terrace. At 22 Gillies Hill. For centuries Cambusbarron folklore channels which became known as Polmaise and Touchadam Estate. John Grierson Main Street and turn left Douglas Terrace you’ll see a plaque maintained that the Sma’ Folk left their hats on its converged into Twenty two generations later, John Murray built Next to the Bruce Memorial into Murray Place, or as to William Moyes, an engineer on the branches before descending onto the battlefield. the nearby burn. Polmaise Castle on the Gillies Hill, one of four castles Church is the Schoolhouse, it’s known the “Coo Loan”. doomed HMS Titanic. Turn into Park It was not until on the Estate. The estate was broken up and the which was once the home of It was, along with the Commondry on your right, Place back towards the village and the 1930s that castle abandoned in 1956. It fell into such a state of Iron Age Forts filmmaker John Grierson. John’s where farmers on their way to market would drove after around 200 meters you’ll On Gillies Hill you will find two Iron Age forts. Cambusbarron had proper water and sewage pipes disrepair that it was blown up by the army in 1966. father Robert was headmaster here for a time. their cattle. William “Citizen” Jaffray (1749 – 1828) turn down the George Smith Wallstale Dun is still loosely identifiable on the installed. However, as late as 1937, two siblings, Grierson was a film maker and one of the first to see a local weaver lived here. William is still held in high Path towards Bruce’s Well slopes above Wallstale Farm and was a favourite aged seven and five, died within weeks of each Hayford Mills the power of film to record real life rather than simply regard in the village because he personally paid for and the site of the ancient picnic spot for Victorian locals. The other is other, of diphtheria. In 1833, local businessmen John Campbell, tell fictional stories - in fact, he was the film maker 13,000 Stirlingshire children to be inoculated against Cambusbarron Chapel.” Gillies Hill Fort and is now mostly underground at The chapel would have had a cemetery. In the William Watson and Alexander Donaldson founded who coined the word “documentary” and went on smallpox. Past both the Commondry and the Touchadam Craig on the hill’s western cliffs.