Cambusbarron, a village in St Ninians parish, Stirlingshire, 1½ mile NW of St Ninians town, and 1½ SW of Stirling. It has a post office under Stirling, a Free church, and a public school; and it shares in the woolspinning and woollen manufacture of the parish. The public school, erected in 1875 at a cost of £4000, with accommodation for 270 children, had (1879) a day and an evening attendance of 177 and 28, and grants of £160, 17s. and £16,9s. 6d. Pop. (1861) 535, (1871) 1236, (1881) 1135.
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