Fakenham, market town and par. with ry. sta., W.
Norfolk, on river Wensum, 13 miles NAV. of Dereham
and 1274 miles NE. of London, 2208 ac., pop. 2756;
P.O., T.O., 3 Banks. Market-day, Thursday; the corn
market is one of the most important in the county.

Fakenham, Little, hamlet, Euston par., AV. Suffolk,
near Fakenham Magna.

F'akcnham Magna, par., W. Suffolk, on river
Brandon, 54 miles SE. of Thetford, 2276 ac., pop. 215;
P.O., called Fakenham.

Fal, river, E. Cornwall; rises near Roche, and flows
S. past Grampound and Tregony to the English Channel
at Falmouth; is 23 miles long, including estuary.

Fala ancl Soulra, united par., Edinburghshire and
Haddingtonshire, 6064 ac., pop. 312; contains Fala,
vil. (conjoint with Blackshiels : which see), on E.
border of Edinburghshire, 3b miles NE. of Tynehead
sta.; b mile NE. is Fala Dali ; b mile NW. (partly in
Crichton par.) is the hamlet of Fala Dam; 1 b mile
SW. is Fala Moor, and Fala Flow, moss.

Fala Tileworks, 24 m. from Errol sta., Perthshire.

Falahill, hamlet, in par. and 1£ mile NW. of Heriot
sta., Edinburghshire.

Falbae Moor, Parton par., Kirkcudbrightshire.

Falcaragh, hamlet, 7 miles SW. of Dunfanaghy, N.
co. Donegal; P.O.

Falcon Cliff, castellated building, at Douglas, Isle of
Man; was at one time the residence of the Governor.

Falcon Crag, eminence, E. side of Derwent Water,
Westmorland.

Falcon Lodge, seat, lb mile E. of Sutton-Coldfield,
N. AVarwickshire.

Falcondale, seat, b m. NW. of Lampeter, Cardigan.

Falconers Dali, seat, 3 m. E. of Luton, Bedfordshire.

Falconhurst, seat, near Edenbridge, W. Kent.

Falcott, hamlet, AVappenham par., S. Northampton,
5 miles NE. of Brackley. See Astwell and Falcott.

Faldingworth, par., N. Lincolnshire, 4 miles SW.
of Market Rasen, 1820 ac., pop. 310.

Faldonside, seat, Galashiels par., NAV. Roxburgh-
shire, 3 miles SW. of Melrose.

Falfield, eccl. dist. and vil., Thornbury par., W.
Gloucestershire—dist., pop. 628; vil., 2 miles NE. of
Thornbury; P.O., T.O.

Falfield, seat, 3g miles SE. of Ceres, Fifeshire.

Falgate Inn, b m. SE. of Potter Heigham sta., Norfolk.

Fal in go, eccl. dist., vil., and seat, Rochdale par., SE.
Lancashire—dist., pop. 6846 ; vil. and seat, 1 mile W.
of Rochdale.

Falkenham, par., E. Suffolk, on Deben estuary, 8
miles S. of Woodbridge, 1751 ac., pop. 274.

Falkingham, par. and vil., S. Lincolnshire, 10 miles
E. of Grantham, 1861 ac., pop. 576 ; P.O., called Folk-
ingham. Market-day, Thursday.

Falkirk, pari, burgh, market town, and par., E.
Stirlingshire, on a declivity overlooking the Carse of
Falkirk, 21| miles NE. of Glasgow, 254 NAV. of Edin-
burgh, and 396 NW. of London by rail—par., 19,551
ac., pop. 25,143; pari, burgh, pop. 13,170; town, pop.
15,599; 5 Banks, 2 newspapers. Market-day, Thursday.
The town of Falkirk includes Falkirk proper, Graham-
ston, Bainsford, Camelon and Lock 16, and Parkfoot
and High Station. It is connected with the port of
Grangemouth by a railway 3 miles long. In the town
or its vicinity are the Carron Ironworks, the Falkirk
Foundry at Bainsford, and the Rosebank Distillery;
also, collieries, chemical works, brick and tile works,
&c. The Falkirk trysts are the largest cattle fairs in
Scotland. Two battles have been fought in the neigh-
bourhood of Falkirk—between Sir William AVallace and
Edward I. (July 1298), in which Wallace was defeated,
and between the Royal forces and those of Prince
Charles Stuart (January 1746), in which the Royal
forces were defeated. In the churchyard are the graves
of Sir John Graham and Sir John Stewart, who fell in
the battle of 1298, and of Sir Robert Munro of Foulis
and his brother, Dr Munro, who fell in the battle of
1746. The Falkirk Burghs, for parliamentary pur-
poses, return 1 member; they consist of Falkirk, in
Stirlingshire; of Lanark, Hamilton, and Airdrie, in
Lanarkshire ; and of Linlithgow, in Linlithgowshire.

Falkland, hamlet, Hemington par., N. Somerset, 5
miles NW. of Frome.

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