Doune
Sign in to saveDoune (; from Scottish Gaelic: , meaning 'the fort') is a burgh within Perthshire. The town is administered by Stirling Council. Doune is assigned Falkirk postcodes starting "FK". The village lies within the parish of Kilmadock and mainly within the area surrounded by the River Teith and Ardoch Burn.
Key facts
- UK place.country
- Scotland
- UK place.official_name
- Doune
- UK place.gaelic_name
- An Dùn
- UK place.label_position
- left
- UK place.population_ref
- ()
- UK place.unitary_scotland
- Stirling
- UK place.lieutenancy_scotland
- Perthshire
- UK place.civil_parish
- Kilmadock
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Stirling and Strathallan
- UK place.constituency_scottish_parliament
- Stirling
- UK place.post_town
- Doune
- UK place.postcode_district
- FK16
- UK place.postcode_area
- FK
- UK place.dial_code
- 01786
- UK place.static_image_name
- Doune Castle above river.jpg
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- NN726016
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- town
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Stirling
- Population
- 2150
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
- Image
- Doune Castle above river.jpg
- Dialing code
- 01786
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- postal code
- FK16
- OS grid reference
- NN726016
- Commons category
- Doune
- historic county
- Perthshire
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
via Wikidata · CC0
~5 min read
Encyclopedic overview
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- History
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Doune (; from Scottish Gaelic: , meaning 'the fort') is a burgh within Perthshire. The town is administered by Stirling Council. Doune is assigned Falkirk postcodes starting "FK". The village lies within the parish of Kilmadock and mainly within the area surrounded by the River Teith and Ardoch Burn.
In the 2001 Scottish census, 2.75% residents of Doune could speak Scottish Gaelic.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Doune” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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