Reddingmuirhead is a village

Village

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 located in Stirlingshire

Stirlingshire

Stirlingshire or the County of Stirling is a registration county of Scotland, based around Stirling, the former county town. It borders Perthshire to the north, Clackmannanshire and West Lothian to the east, Lanarkshire to the south, and Dunbartonshire to the south-west.Until 1975 it was a county...

, Falkirk

Falkirk (council area)

Falkirk is one of the 32 unitary authority council areas in Scotland. It borders onto North Lanarkshire to the south west, Stirling to the north west, West Lothian to the south east and, across the Firth of Forth to the north east, Fife and Clackmannanshire...

 council area

Subdivisions of Scotland

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, Central

Central Region, Scotland

Central Region was a local government region of Scotland from 1975 to 1996. It is now divided into the council areas of Falkirk, Stirling, and Clackmannanshire, which had previously been districts within Central...

 Scotland

Scotland

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. A few hundred yards uphill from the village of Redding, it is between Shieldhill

Shieldhill

Shieldhill is a village within the Falkirk council area in Central Scotland. The village is south-east of Falkirk, south-west of Polmont and north of the village of California....

 and Brightons

Brightons

Brightons is a village in the east of the Falkirk council area of Scotland. It is south-east of Falkirk, south of Grangemouth and east of Linlithgow...

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The village contains a large Co-operative Society building, the shops of which provide most everyday requirements, one small general store

General store

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, and one licensed grocer

Grocer

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 who also looks after the post office

Post office

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, and a large secondary school Braes High. It was notable in recent times due to the success of its local Sunday football

Football (soccer)

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 team, Blairlodge AFC, which competed in the Falkirk and District League.

Reddingmuirhead is also the location of the Polmont Young Offenders Institution

Polmont (HM Prison)

Her Majesty's Young Offenders Institution Polmont is the largest of its kind in Scotland. Despite its name, the institution is located in Reddingmuirhead in the Falkirk region, and not in Polmont....

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