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BRIDGE OF ALLAN,town on Allan river, 3 miles north of Stirling. It ranks high as a resort of invalids and convalescents, owes its celebrity to at once its climate, its structure, its environs, its views, and its vicinity to Airthrey mineral wells; looks, as seen from Stirling, to be a town of villas ; communicates with Stirling by tramway cars, and commands wide extent and variety of charming walks and drives; ' publishes a weekly newspaper, and has a head post office with all departments, a railway station, 2 banking offices, 4 hotels, a hydropathic establishment, a museum, 4 handsome modern churches, Established, Free, United Presbyterian, and Episcopalian, and a public school with about 189 scholars. Pop. at the census of 1881, 3005; but the summer visitors are usually from 30,000 to 40,000.