The street is close to the former Thornhill estate. 

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

The site of Denny High School in the 1970s.  

Ferniesyde appears on old local maps.  Its name obviously derives from the local plant life in the vicinity. 

Robert Weir owned Carrongrove Paper Mill from 1855 to 1867. 

The Hermitage was built by the Hill family in 1801 near the Auchenlilly Linn on the River Carron.