Editing Clackmannanshire (section)

==History==
[[File:Paterson 2007 agryfp clackmannan-stone-person 010620071941.jpg|left|thumb|The Stone of Mannan]]

Clackmannanshire takes its name from the original county town of [[Clackmannan]], which is named after a stone anciently associated with the pre-Christian deity Manau or Mannan.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Clackmannan_sign_about_stone,_cross_and_tollbooth.jpg |title=File:Clackmannan sign about stone, cross and tollbooth.jpg |publisher=Wikimedia Commons |access-date=2012-09-19}}</ref><ref>[http://www.rcahms.gov.uk/pls/portal/canmore.newcandig_details_gis?inumlink=48321 Site Record for Clackmannan, King Robert's Stone Clackmannan StoneDetails Details<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> The stone now rests on a larger stone beside the surviving tower of [[Clackmannan Tolbooth]] and the Mercat Cross at the top of Main street, Clackmannan.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Clackmannanstane.jpg |title=Image of the Stone of Mannan |date=19 February 2007 |publisher=Commons.wikimedia.org |access-date=2012-09-19}}</ref>

Clackmannanshire became known for the weaving mills powered by the [[Hillfoots Villages|Hillfoots burns]]. Other industries included brewing, glass manufacture, mining and ship building. Now capitalising on its central position and transport links, Clackmannanshire attracts service industries and tourism.

The motto of Clackmannanshire is "Look Aboot Ye" (''Circumspice'' in [[Latin]]). In 2007 a re-branding exercise led to the area adopting the slogan "More Than You Imagine".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.clacksweb.org.uk/document/2096.pdf |title=Logo and Visual Identity Survey |publisher=Clackmannanshire Council}}</ref>

===Administrative history===
Clackmannanshire's origins as a [[shires of Scotland|shire]] (the area controlled by a [[Sheriff principal|sheriff]]) are unclear; it had certainly become a shire by 1305, with some suggestion that it may have already existed in the early 1200s.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Chalmers |first1=George |title=Caledonia (Volume 7) |date=1894 |publisher=Alexander Gardner |location=Paisley |page=89 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0Dg6AQAAMAAJ |access-date=19 April 2023}}</ref>

[[File:Main Street, Clackmannan.JPG|thumb|left|[[Clackmannan]], the historic county town. The tower is the surviving part of [[Clackmannan Tolbooth]].]]

The county town was originally Clackmannan, where the [[tolbooth]] was built in 1592 to serve as the sheriff court for the county. [[Commissioners of Supply]] were established in 1667 to act as the main administrative body for the shire. In 1822 the sheriff court and meeting place of the commissioners was moved from Clackmannan to [[Alloa]], which had grown to become the more significant town.<ref name=hes>{{Historic Environment Scotland|num=LB1947|desc=Clackmannan Tolbooth, Mercat Cross and Clackmannan Stone, Main Street, Clackmannan|cat=A|access-date=19 April 2023}}</ref> [[County Buildings, Alloa|County Buildings]] was built in 1865 at the corner of Mar Street and Drysdale Street in Alloa to serve as the courthouse and meeting place for the commissioners.<ref>{{Historic Environment Scotland|num= LB20970|desc= Alloa Sheriff Court and Justice of the Peace Court|access-date=18 July 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://canmore.org.uk/site/141962/alloa-mar-street-county-office|title=County Office, Mar Street, Alloa|publisher=Canmore| access-date=18 July 2021}}</ref>

[[File:County Buildings, Alloa.jpg|thumb|[[County Buildings, Alloa|County Buildings]], Mar Street, [[Alloa]]]]

Elected county councils were established in 1890 under the [[Local Government (Scotland) Act 1889]], taking most of the functions of the commissioners (which were eventually abolished in 1930). Clackmannanshire County Council held its first meeting on 22 May 1890 at the County Buildings in Alloa, which would serve as the county council's headquarters until its abolition in 1975.<ref>{{cite news |title=Clackmannan County Council |url=https://search.findmypast.co.uk/search/british-newspapers |access-date=19 April 2023 |work=Alloa Advertiser |date=24 May 1890 |page=2}}</ref>

The 1889 act also led to a review of boundaries, with several [[exclave]]s being transferred to a county they actually bordered, and parishes which straddled more than one county being adjusted such that each parish was entirely in a single county. These changes saw Clackmannanshire cede [[Cambuskenneth]] to [[Stirlingshire]], whilst it gained [[Alva, Clackmannanshire|Alva]] from Stirlingshire and parts of Alloa parish which had been in [[Perthshire]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Shennan |first1=Hay |title=Boundaries of counties and parishes in Scotland as settled by the Boundary Commissioners under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1889 |date=1892 |publisher=W. Green |location=Edinburgh |page=271 |url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_meygAAAAMAAJ/page/n307/mode/2up |access-date=19 April 2023}}</ref>

Clackmannanshire County Council was abolished in 1975 under the [[Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973]], which replaced Scotland's counties, burghs and landward districts with a two-tier structure of upper-tier regions and lower-tier [[districts of Scotland|districts]]. Clackmannanshire became part of the [[Central Region, Scotland|Central region]] and a Clackmannan district was created covering the pre-1975 county plus the parish of [[Muckhart]], which had been in Perthshire prior to 1975.<ref>{{cite legislation UK|type=act|act=Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973|year=1973|chapter=65|accessdate=17 April 2023}}</ref>

Further local government reforms in 1996 under the [[Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994]] saw the regions and districts created in 1975 abolished and replaced with [[council area]]s providing all local government services. Clackmannan district became one of the new council areas, taking on the functions of the abolished Central Regional Council.<ref>{{cite legislation UK|type=act|act=Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994|year=1994|chapter=39|accessdate=17 April 2023}}</ref> The 1994 act originally named the new council area "Clackmannan", but the shadow authority elected in 1995 requested a change of name to "Clackmannanshire", which was agreed by the government before the new council area came into force on 1 April 1996.<ref>{{cite web |title=Historical information from 1973 onwards |url=https://view.officeapps.live.com/op/view.aspx?src=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ordnancesurvey.co.uk%2Fdocuments%2Fboundary-legislation-changes-from-1973.xls&wdOrigin=BROWSELINK |website=Boundary-Line support |publisher=Ordnance Survey |access-date=17 February 2023}}</ref>