Dollar (Scottish Gaelic: Dolair ) is a small town in Clackmannanshire, Scotland. It is one of Hillfoots Village, situated between the Ochil Hills range in the north and the Devon River in the south. The dollar is on the A91 road, which runs from Stirling to St Andrews. The town is about 3 miles east of Tillicoultry. The Muckhart parish extends to the east bank of the Dollar, although Muckhart's size is much smaller. These include Dollar Mine and Pitgober.
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The main attraction in the Dollar is the 500-year-old Castle Campbell, the lowlands of Duke of Argyll, where Mary, the Queen of Scotland lived in the 16th century. The residence was chosen because of its proximity to the courts in Edinburgh and to Clackmannan Tower, Alloa, Stirling Castle and Linlithgow Palace.
At the foot of Dollar Glen is The Green Mill. Here is also a small museum run by volunteers, containing a collection of local items, and much information about the former Devon Valley Railway, which was closed to passengers in 1964. There are various sports facilities, including an 18-hole golf course steep slope and lack of bunkers), tennis clubs, squash clubs, bowling clubs and cricket clubs. Ochil hills that overlook the Dollar provide an opportunity for mountain biking. The nearby Devon River is used seasonally for trout fishing (with permission). There are three churches, one Scottish Church, one Scottish Episcopal Church and the Ochil Hills Community Church that meets at the Civic Center.
The dollar is now primarily residential; However, for a long time known for its industry. Efforts were made to mine tin and copper in Glen Dollars from the 18th century and possibly before, but this has no economic significance. Coal mining in the area began around the same time and, until 1973, supplied the Kincardine Power Plant, and later, the Longannet Power Plant with coal from the Upper Hirst layer. A small non-NCB private coal mine operated from the Harviestoun plantation from the mid-1970s, partly filling the gap closed by NCB, while there was still local demand for coal.
Similar to other Hillfoots villages, the textile industry plays an important role in urban development. Harviestoun Brewery was established to the west of the Dollar in 1985, before moving to Alva. The city is now largely a dormitory community for people working in Stirling and beyond - e.g. Glasgow and Edinburgh. Because of the cost-paying school's success, the Dollar Academy and its quiet neighborhood, the city attracts young and quite wealthy families, giving a slightly different character than any other Hillfoots Village.
The city has two war memorials, one for every world war. In the courtyard of the bronze Academy statue with outstretched arms facing west and commemorating the fall of the First World War. It also has an added name for Northern Ireland. Who died mostly from the Academy; two non-Academy deaths (Archibald's brother) are marked with the word "parish" to their name. The Second World War had a much simpler memorial, in a small public park on the main road, where the road suddenly spun. Both were warned by local sculptor George Henry Paulin.
Dollar is the home of Dollar Glen Football Club.
The dollar is a twin with the French city of La Ville-aux-Dames, which is located outside Tours in the Loire Valley.
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Origin name
The possible interpretation is that the Dollar comes from Doilleir , a Gaelic word from Ireland and Scotland which means dark and gloomy, or from various words in Pictish: 'Dol' (field) 'Ar' (workable) or Dol (valley) Ar (high). Other derivations are from Dollars , 'haugh places' (cf Welsh dÃÆ''l 'meadow'.This word is borrowed from the UK or Pictish into Scottish Gaelic as water-dail meadow, haugh '). John Everett-Heath, picked it up as the 'Places of the Padang Air' from the Celtic watershed and the 'place of the water' and 'i' ar '.
Famous people
- According to Chronicle Pictish, AmlaÃÆ'b Conung, the first Norse king from Dublin, was killed in fighting in the Dollar around 874, when Constantine I was king of Scotland.
- Robert Burns visited the Dollar in 1787, living on the Harviestoun plantation. There he was inspired to write the song "The Banks of Devon"
- The dollar is the home town of Scottish synergist, James Legge, translator of The Chinese Classics, who invited Wang Tao to live in the Dollar from 1870-1872 where he wrote two travel records: Wondering at Rambling Park Touring Mountain in Dollars , then published on Jottings from Carefree Travel, the first travel book about Europe by a Chinese scholar. Wang Tao described the Dollar population as "honest, independent and hardworking" and that "public order is well preserved".
- The Dollar Academy was founded in 1818 with the legacy of the native Dollar, Captain John McNabb, who allegedly made his fortune in the slave trade. Among the many famous disciples at the Academy are James Dewar, inventor of vacuum tubes; grandson of Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia; The second Chief Officer (Speaker) of the Scottish Parliament, George Reid; BBC Gaza Correspondent, Alan Johnston; and political journalist for The Scotsman , News of the World magazine
The Spectator , Fraser Nelson. - Lavinia Malcolm, Provost of Dollar between 1913-1919, was the first female rector and the first female city council in Scotland (see [1]).
- The painter J. M. W. Turner visits the Dollar and sketches in the valley.
- In the late 1990s, Michael Kulas and Saul Davies, musicians in the English rock group James, also lived and worked in the old Tea House Cottage, now known as Brewlands, next to Castle Campbell.
- The Scottish writer, Iain Banks, studied at Stirling University and, in an interview for The South Bank Show in 1997, talked about the use of landscapes above the Dollar as an inspiration for his novel (especially A Song of Stone ).
- The prominent Esperantist William Auld, nominated three times for the Nobel Prize in Literature, lived in the Dollar until his death in 2006.
- Biologist Alan Grafen.
References
External links
- Dollar Museum
- The Dollar Library
- ClacksNet - Clackmannanshire Community Network
- View Aboot Ye - Clackmannanshire Community News, Information, and Forums
- Historical information about Dollars from the Vision of Britain website
- Squash Dollar Club
- Dollar Glen Football Club homepage
- Dollar Drama Club
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