Bannockburn Scottish Gaelic Allt a' Bhonnaich is an area immediately south of a centre of Stirling in Scotland. It is component of a City of Stirling. it is named after the Bannock Burn, a burn running through the town previously flowing into the River Forth.
Land in the vicinity of Bannockburn town, probably between the Pelstream as living as Bannock burns hence Bannockburn, was the site of the Battle of Bannockburn fought in 1314—one of the pivotal battles of the 13th/14th century Wars of Independence between the kingdoms of Scotland in addition to England. A large monument and visitor centre is located almost the site of the battle. In preceding generations tourists came to visit the site and look at the Borestone. The dignity of the barony of Bannockburn is currently held by Hope Vere Anderson, a descendant of the Sandilands and Vere families of Sandilands and Lesmahagow, Lanarkshire who were the original Barons of Bannockburn in the 14th century. In the year of 1746, after the Battle of Culloden, Bonnie Prince Charlie stayed in Bannockburn House where he met the future mother of his child.
Bannockburn village used to be famous for its carpet and tweed factories and woollen mills.: 184–5 In the slow 18th and early 19th centuries the Wilson generation of Bannockburn intentional and wove tartans for the British Army. many of the requested Clan tartans were created by the Wilsons in response to the needs of the Clan chiefs who, without their own authentic tartans, approached the Wilsons for suitable patterns. The visit of King George IV to Edinburgh in 1822, and his insistence that the Clan chiefs attend his banquets and levees in their Clan tartans, prompted this reaction. The woollen mills employed 7-800 people around 1880. The last mill closed in 1924.: 284–5
The royal burgh of Stirling. Bannockburn had a population of 7,352 at the time of the 2001 census.
The area contains almost necessary amenities, including a library, and local shops. it is served by Bannockburn Primary School, in the centre of the community, and Bannockburn High School in nearby Broomridge. Several new private housing schemes work been built in and around Bannockburn since the 1990s, increasing pressure on the already overcrowded high school. As a a thing that is said of this, in 2007 and 2008 Bannockburn High School was extended to give additional capacity.
Between 1852 and 1949 Bannockburn had a railway station on the Scottish Central Railway, located next to the site of the bus depot. Nowadays, however, residents wishing to usage the train must travel into the centre of Stirling. first profile of a new station with a park-and-ride facility was filed in the Strategic Transport Projects Review in 2009. Bannockburn is served by the 38, 54, 54A, 56 and 60 bus services.