Grangemouth

Grangemouth, a port of Stirlingshire, 3 miles N.E. of Falkirk, took its rise in 1777, and now has extensive quays, docks, graving-docks, shipyards ind warehouses. The latter half of the 19th century has seen an enormous increase in the shipping using the port. The Carron Company have works near-by, and maintain a line of passenger steamers between the port and London. The imports consist of timber, hemp, tallow, deals, flax, grain, and iron, and the exports of coal and manufactured iron.