Overview of Raploch

A district of Stirling, Raploch lies to the northwest of the Castle Rock, a mile from the centre of Stirling. Formerly a separate community, very little survives of the old village. The houses of Raploch council estate facing the Drip Road were designed in 1920 by E.S. Bell to resemble small Scottish palaces complete with towers and turreted roofs. Having become infamous for its social problems the Raploch estate was subject to a multi-million pound regeneration scheme 2003-06 which has involved the demolition of a number of houses, the building of a community-school campus, health centre, riverside walkway and a bypass forming part of the Stirling Western Access Road, together with commercial and industrial development.