Throsk

Human settlement in Scotland

Throsk

Location within the Stirling council area

OS grid referenceNS849909Civil parish

St. Ninians

Council area

Stirling

Lieutenancy area

Stirling and Falkirk

CountryScotlandSovereign stateUnited KingdomPost townSTIRLINGPostcode districtFK7Dialling code01786PoliceScotlandFire Scottish AmbulanceScottish UK Parliament

Stirling

Scottish Parliament

Stirling

List of places: UK; Scotland

56°05′52″N 3°51′01″W / 56.0979°N 3.8502°W / 56.0979; -3.8502

Throsk (In Scottish Gaelic: Badan Deathach, meaning the thicket among the mist) is a village in the Stirling council area of Scotland. It lies on the A905 road east of Fallin close to the River Forth. The United Kingdom Census 2001 recorded the population as 231.^[1]

Throsk was formerly the site of the Royal Navy's Bandeath armaments depot. This closed in 1978 and now serves as an industrial estate owned by the local council. Many of the original munitions storage bunkers remain in situ as does a loading crane beside the River Forth.^[2]^[3]

There was a rail bridge between Throsk and Alloa sometime called the Alloa Swing Bridge of which some video footage survives.

Notes

^ "Stirling at a Glance: 2001 edition" (PDF). Stirling Council. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 November 2006. Retrieved 7 December 2009.
^ "Bandeath Industrial Estate". Gazetteer for Scotland. Retrieved 7 December 2009.
^ "Bandeath Munitions Depot". Secret Scotland. Retrieved 7 December 2009.