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Cowie

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Cowie

Total population

2,720

Coordinates56.08°, -3.87°

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Overview

Cowie is a village in the Stirling council area of Scotland. Historically part of Stirlingshire, it lies on the minor B9124 road approximately 4 miles southeast of Stirling and about 1 mile north of the A9 road. The United Kingdom Census 2011 recorded the population as 2,713.

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History & geography

History

Excavations have identified Mesolithic and Neolithic settlement remains at Chapelfield. east of Cowie at the Castleton farm is a number of Cup and Ring markings on a rock outcrop dated to around between 2000 and 5000 years BP. Cowie was formerly a pit village and stone quarrying was carried on in the surrounds. It is now the site of a factory manufacturing engineered wood products and other light industries. Recent years have seen significant new housing developments in the village for commuters.

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Geography

Latitude
56.0822
Longitude
-3.8688
Water area
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Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

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Geography & sun

Avg solar (kWh/m²/day)
2.45
Annual solar (kWh/m²)
895

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

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Public attention

Wikipedia views (last 30 days)
194
Avg daily Wikipedia views
6
Attention level
Obscure

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Official Identifiers

ONS — UK Office for National Statistics

ONS code
osgb4000000074553219
Local type
Village
Region
Scotland

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Sources

  • • Wikipedia
  • • Wikidata
  • • Open-Meteo / sunrise-sunset.org
  • • Wikipedia Pageviews API
  • • Open Library
  • • ONS / OS Open Names — UK official place gazetteer, via api.postcodes.io (OS code, local type, county/unitary, district/borough, region)
  • • ONS — UK Office for National Statistics — api.postcodes.io / OS Open Names