The Silver Burn, Ochil Hills Woodland Park, Alva, Clackmannanshire, Scotland

The Silver Burn, Alva

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The Silver Burn tumbles out of the Silver Glen, in the Ochil Hills above Alva, Clackmananshire.

The burn takes its name from the glen, which in turn gets its name from a rich seam of silver ore which was discovered here in the 18th century - the largest ever found in the British Isles.

It was discovered around the time of the 1715 Jacobite rising. Landowner Sir John Erskine, a Jacobite sympathiser, hid the ore from the government by burying it in the grounds of his home, Alva House.

After the rising failed, government specialists, including Sir Isaac Newton, tried to recover the ore, but they found only a few casks full of rocks. The hidden ore had been spirited off to France to fund the Jacobite movement.

The lands of Alva House now form the Ochil Hills Woodland Park, on the slopes of Wood Hill. The barred off entrances to the old Silver Mines can be found hidden amongst the trees.