Muiravonside Country Park is 170 acres of woodland and parkland open to the public all year round with marked trails, picnic sites and a play area.
[1] In 2016, a Heritage Lottery grant and money from a nearby landfill site allowed the park to expand and improve its trails, with the introduction of seven specially commissioned sculptures.
This family had a long history of supporting the return of the Stuarts to the throne, Alexander McLeod, who stayed at Muiravonside, was one of Bonnie Prince Charlie's aide de camp.
Also involved was a leading Scottish advocate and friend of the Macleods, Lord Grange, whose wife, Rachel Chiesley, threatened to expose his Jacobite sympathies and his plot for the crown.
This was a time of agricultural improvement in Scotland and Sir Charles Stirling aimed to make the estate as self-sufficient as possible.
The once grand house was deemed unsafe and it was demolished as part of the estate's restoration as Falkirk's first country park in the 1970s.
In 1980, the Countryside Ranger Service began its mission to educate and to provide information as well as to maintain the park's woodland and its walks.