Muir

Back Blip - filling in a few gaps in my journal


One of the waymarked trails starting at the Greenrig car park in Falkirk is the Battle of Falkirk Muir Trail. It was my walk for today and leads one around some of the locations associated with the battle on 17th January 1746, where an estimated 15,000 Hanoverian and Jacobite soldiers fought out what would now be called in football terms a 'score draw' with neither side scoring a victory but with heavy casualties on both sides.

It was a result that was better for the Government (Hanoverian) side than the Jacobites as it effectively ended the campaign of Prince Charles Edward Stuart (Bonnie Prince Charlie) to gain the British throne. His final defeat came three months later at Culloden Moor, near Inverness.