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The Black Devon

Clackmannanshire is a county, but there is a town called Clackmannan with the river The Black Devon. The name of Clackmannan means “Stone of Manau”. That also refers to an older name Manaw Gododdin, which is pre-Roman Britain and in the same region, as Manaw means men or people and Gododdin has a lot of interpretations such as the obvious “God Odin” so that the whole name could be taken as “Tribe of Odin” or “Manann”.
The river The Black Devon is shallow and full of fish. Two miles of it disappeared in coal mines. There is a main other river that flows near called River Devon and this was previously called Dovan, or its Gaelic name Duibhe, which basically means the “bank” as in river bank. 
The area is filled with wildlife and has features such as fairytale looking waterfalls.