Landmarks such as The Falkirk Wheel and The Kelpies have put Falkirk firmly on the map.
The engineering genius of the Falkirk Wheel, which opened in the year 2002, first signalled the intention to move boldly into the new century with a reinvention of Falkirk, once known primarily as the midpoint of the motorway and railway between Edinburgh and Glasgow.
Now a renowned national and international tourist attraction, the Wheel connects the Forth and Clyde and Union canals, both of which greatly helped the town’s development in the 18th and 19th centuries. Before their arrival and the opening of the first ironworks in 1760, Falkirk was a market town, known mainly for its great cattle trysts where sometimes more than 50,000 head of cattle were assembled for sale.
And the vast steel structure, The Kelpies, which has attracted a million visitors since opening in April 2014, is helping to kick-start new areas of development and showing that 'Faw Kirk' is most definitely on the up.
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