For its proximity to the Forth and Clyde Canal.

This may be a name transferred from Glenhead which is around two miles to the South West. 

Many men of the Royal Scots were killed in the Quintinshill rail disaster of 1915 when their troop train crashed near Gretna having left from their camp in Larbert.

Rosebank was part of Dunipace and the site of an iron foundry.  A  well known standing stone was removed in 1899. 

Middlerig is a very common name for a farm.  There are several in Falkirk district.  A rig was a strip of cultivated land.

Local street names themed on flowers.