GRANGEMOUTH  , a

police burgh and seaport of Stirlingshire, Scotland . Pop . (Igor) 8386 . It is situated on the south shore of the estuary of the Forth, at the mouth of the Carron and also of Grange Burn, a right-hand tributary of the Carron, 3 m . N.E. of Falkirk by the North British and Caledonian railways . Itis the terminus of the Forth and Clyde Canal, from the opening of which (1789) its history may be dated . The principal buildings are the town hall (in the Greek style), public hall, public institute and free library, and there is a public park presented by the marquess of Zetland . Since 181o, when it became a head port, it has gradually attained the position of the chief port of the Forth west of Leith . The first dock (opened in 1846), the second (1859) and the third (1882) cover an area of 28 acres, with timber ponds of 44 acres and a total quayage of 2500 yards . New docks, 93 acres in extent, with an entrance from the firth, were opened in 1905 at a cost of more than £1,000,000 . The works rendered it necessary to divert the influx of the Grange from the Carron to the Forth . Timber, pig-iron and iron ore are the leading imports, and coal, produce and iron the chief exports .

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industries include shipbuilding, rope and sail making and iron founding . There is regular steamer communication with London, Christiania, Hamburg, Rotterdam and Amsterdam . -Experiments in steam navigation were carried out in 1802 with the " Charlotte Dundas " on the Forth and Clyde Canal at Grange-mouth . Kersa House adjoining the town on the S.W. is a seat of the marquess of Zetland .