FROM PRE-HISTORY TO THE ROMANS
The village of Bonnybridge has grown up, as is to be expected, on the land surrounding the Water of Bonny. This is a small river which rises near the village of Banton and flows eastwards towards the Firth of Forth. Before reaching the Forth the Bonny Water joins the main river in the area - the river Carron.
The land surrounding Bonnybridge consists of a broad, originally fairly marshy, lowlands surrounded by gentle hills rising to the north and the south. The wide, boggy valley would have been covered in a fairly thick forest and so not many people would have lived here in early history. However a very few did make some sort of living here as is shown by the finding of some New Stone Age pottery (about 2500 years BC).
The land surrounding Bonnybridge consists of a broad, originally fairly marshy, lowlands surrounded by gentle hills rising to the north and the south. The wide, boggy valley would have been covered in a fairly thick forest and so not many people would have lived here in early history. However a very few did make some sort of living here as is shown by the finding of some New Stone Age pottery (about 2500 years BC).