Blane or Ballagan, a small river of W Stirlingshire, rising on Earl's Seat, one of the Lennox Hills (1894 feet), on the mutual border of Killearn and Strathblane parishes. Thence it runs 3 miles southward, among the hills, near the E border of Strathblane parish, leaping down the ravine of Ballagan in three romantic falls. It next runs 1 mile westward past Strathblane village; 2¾ miles north-westward, along Strathblane valley; 1¼ mile northward, partly along the boundary between Strathblane and Killearn, partly within Killearn; and finally 1½ mile north-westward to Endrick Water, at a point 1½ mile SW of Killearn village. The middle part of its basin is Strathblane proper, descends on the river's bed or immediate banks from about 340 to 100 feet above sea-level, and is traversed by the Blane Valley railway.
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