Alloa

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Alloa

Total population

18,989

Coordinates56.12°, -3.79°

Demographic figures from UK Office for National Statistics. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Alloa is a town in Clackmannanshire in the Central Lowlands of Scotland. It is on the north bank of the Forth at the spot where some say it ceases to be the River Forth and becomes the Firth of Forth. Alloa is south of the Ochil Hills on the western Fife peninsula, six miles east of Stirling and 13 miles (21 km) west of Dunfermline; by water Alloa is 25 miles (40 km) from Granton.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Wildlife & biodiversity

Citizen-science & research observations from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF).

Earthquake history

Events from the USGS Earthquake Catalog (global) (FDSN Event Web Service).

Nearby places in Scotland

• Benview
  2.1 mi away
• Shiresmill
  7.7 mi away
• Cowstrandburn
  9.4 mi away
• Glendevon
  9.7 mi away
• Braeface
  10.1 mi away
• Allandale
  10.2 mi away · pop. 289
• Castlecary
  11.1 mi away
• Binniehill
  12.9 mi away
• Mannerston Holdings
  13.2 mi away
• Carsegour
  13.8 mi away
• Blairforge
  15.8 mi away
• Caldercruix
  16.1 mi away

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Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Alloa

Alloa

Ordnance Survey · 1981

Stirling-Alloa-Kincardine Railway and Linked Improvements (Scotland) Act 2004

Scotland. Parliament. · 2004

Perth and Alloa, Auchterarder

Ordnance Survey · 1998

Stirling-Alloa structure plan

Central Region (Scotland). Department of Planning. · 1982

A short history of Alloa

Thomas Crouther Gordon · 1986

The local plan

Clackmannan Scotland · 1988

Victorian Alloa

Jannette Archibald · 2004

Sauchie and Alloa

John Adamson · 1988

Search results from Open Library.

Recently spotted species

Red Clover

Trifolium pratense

Seen 2026-09-17

common yarrow

Achillea millefolium

Seen 2026-09-17

Speckled Wood

Pararge aegeria

Seen 2026-09-17

ribwort plantain

Plantago lanceolata

Seen 2026-09-17

Jelly-antler

Calocera viscosa

Seen 2026-09-16

Sulphur Tuft

Hypholoma fasciculare

Seen 2026-09-16

Forest Bug

Pentatoma rufipes

Seen 2026-09-16

European Robin

Erithacus rubecula

Seen 2026-09-16

European Peacock Butterfly

Aglais io

Seen 2026-09-16

Research-grade observations from iNaturalist (within ~15 mi).

Official Identifiers