Plean
Plean is a village, in the
Landmarks
Plean has a
Plean Estate
The Plean Estate was once owned by the Earl of Dunmore; he had sold it to the Robert Haldane who was already the owner of the Airthrey Estate in Stirling.[4] It stayed in the Haldane family until it was sold in 1799 to Francis Simpson,[4] a former captain with the East India Company.[5]
Simpson's wife Jean Sophia Cadell, daughter of William Cadell of Banton, was only twenty-one when she died in 1806, she left behind two children for Simpson to look after; one son, William, and a daughter, Frances.[6] In 1819, Francis built Plean House and the other estate buildings.[4]
William Simpson's Home is a local charity based in Plean, established by Francis Simpson, providing residential social care for men with alcohol-related brain damage, and with underlying mental health illness.[7]
Plean
Notable people
- Ronnie Swan (born 1941), Scottish footballer, goalkeeper
- Campbell Forsyth, the Kilmarnock and Scotland international goalkeeper was born in Plean in 1939.[9]
- Frankie Jones, the fly/bantamweight champion boxer of the 1950s and '60s was born in Plean in 1933.[10]
- John McAulay VC, spent all of his youth in Plean
Transportation
Plean railway station served the village from 1904 to 1956.
References
- ^ "Mid-2020 Population Estimates for Settlements and Localities in Scotland". National Records of Scotland. 31 March 2022. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
- ^ "Comparative Population Profile for the Plean locality". Scotland's Census Results Online (SCROL). Archived from the original on 19 May 2011. Retrieved 1 January 2008.
- ^ "East Plean primary school badly damaged by fire". STV. 7 November 2010. Retrieved 25 January 2019.
- ^ a b c "Friends of Plean Country Park - Social History of Plean Estate". www.pleancountrypark.org.uk. Retrieved 28 June 2018.
- ^ "Governor's House, William Simpson's Asylum, Plean, 1907". 8 January 2016. Retrieved 28 June 2018.
- ^ Edit, St Ninians Old Parish Church | powered by Church. "St Ninians Old Parish Church | From the past". www.stniniansold.org.uk. Retrieved 28 June 2018.
- ^ "1800s care home to open to women". 2010. Retrieved 1 July 2018.
- ^ Salter, Mike, Castles of the Heartland of Scotland, Folly (1994), 131.
- ISBN 0-9534474-3-X.
- ^ "Statistics at boxrec.com". boxrec.com. 31 December 2013. Retrieved 1 January 2013.