Fallin () is a village in the

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council area of Scotland. It lies on the

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3 miles east of

on a bend in the

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. The

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recorded the population as 2,710. It was formerly a

pit village A pit village, colliery village or mining village is a settlement built by colliery owners to house their workers. The villages were built on the coalfields of Great Britain during the Industrial Revolution where new coal mines were developed in ...

, the site of the Polmaise Colliery 3&4 (Polmaise Colliery 1&2 was situated at Milhall), originally opened in 1904 by Archibald Russell Ltd. At its peak, in 1957, it employed 778 people. During the

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it was reputed to be the only colliery in Britain where support was so strong that there was no need for pickets during the whole of the strike. British Coal decided to close the Colliery on 17 July 1987, marking the end of coal mining in Central Region. The village is home to The Goth, a community-run pub and one of the few remaining pubs in Scotland still run under the

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. Fallin has been the site of several new housing developments. In 2022 Christmas lights will be erected for the first time – this is being created by the Fallin Community Voice and the PCC -through funding by residents of the village. In 2024 a new community garden project will start in an area of the old Miners site close to the bing – which will link to route 76 bicycle route – along with links back to Stirling

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External links

Canmore – Fallin, Polmaise Colliery site record
Villages in Stirling (council area) Mining communities in Scotland {{Stirling-geo-stub