Bannockburn (Ban`nockburn) , a manufacturing village 3 m. SE. of Stirling, the scene of the victory, on June 24, 1314, of Robert the Bruce over Edward II., which reasserted and secured Scottish independence; it manufactures carpets and tartans.
Population (circa 1900) given as 2,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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