Raploch

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Raploch is a district of the city of Stirling to the south of the River Forth in central Scotland.

The first houses were built in the late 17th century, after the land had been sold by the Earl of Mar to the patrons of Cowane's Hospital in Stirling. Economic conditions led to stagnation but housing began again in earnest at the start of the 19th century.

The real expansion came in the middle of the 20th century, when council housing replaced decrepit housing in the old town.

Mags Haney, head of a noted drug-dealing clan in the Stirling area, was a Raploch resident until her imprisonment at Cornton Vale in 2003. [1]