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Clackmannan is a small town as well as civil parish embeded in the Central Lowlands of Scotland. Positioned within the Forth Valley, Clackmannan is 1.8 miles (2.9 km) south-east of Alloa and 3.2 miles (5.1 km) south of Tillicoultry. The town is within the county of Clackmannanshire, of which it was previously the county town, until Alloa overtook it in size and also importance. According to a 2009 price quote the population of the settlement of Clackmannan is 3,348 residents. The name of the community describes the Stone of Manau or Stone of Mannan, a pre-Christian monument that can be seen in the town square next to the Tolbooth or Tollbooth Tower, which dates from 1592. Throughout the 12th century, the area developed part of the lands managed by the abbots of Cambuskenneth. Later on it became connected with the Bruce household, that, during the 14th century, built a calculated tower-house. It still stands over the town according to Historic Scotland, but access is forbidden (because of decrease). A crater on asteroid 253 Mathilde is called after Clackmannan. Because Mathilde is a dark, carbonaceous body, its craters have been named after famous coalfields from across the globe. The Clackmannan Group is the name offered to a suite of rocks of late Dinantian and Namurian age laid down during the Carboniferous duration in the Midland Valley of Scotland. The war memorial was designed by Sir Robert Lorimer in 1919.