The Estate of Forganhall in Bainsford was owned by the Glen family from the late 18th Century.  One of them, William, was responsible for the 1697 Town Steeple being cast to the ground in 1804.

Northdales was a local place name recovered from a historic map.

James ‘Persia’ Dawson served his time in Carron Ironworks then as an Army gunner and later an instructor in the army of the Shah of Persia.  He moved to Australia but not before building a row of houses in Mungalhead called 'Persia Row'.

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

In the vicinity of Larbert Loch.

The Forbes family of Callendar House were major landowners in Falkirk District from 1783.