| Official Name: | Avonbridge |
| Gaelic Name: | Drochaid na h-Aibhne |
| Local Name: | Bridge of the River |
| Country: | Scotland |
| Population Ref: | |
| Area Total Sq Mi: | 0.11 |
| Os Grid Reference: | NS911726 |
| Edinburgh Distance: | 21.5miles E |
| London Distance: | 340miles SSE |
| Map Alt: | Avonbridge is in the south of the Falkirk council area in the Central Belt of the Scottish mainland. |
| Label Position: | left |
| Coordinates: | 55.934°N -3.744°W |
| Post Town: | FALKIRK |
| Postcode Area: | FK |
| Postcode District: | FK1 2 |
| Dial Code: | 01324 |
| Hide Services: | yes |
| Constituency Westminster: | East Falkirk and Linlithgow |
| Civil Parish: | Slamannan |
| Civil Parish1: | Muiravonside |
| Unitary Scotland: | Falkirk |
| Lieutenancy Scotland: | Stirling and Falkirk |
| Constituency Scottish Parliament: | Falkirk East |
| Website: | falkirk.gov.uk |
| Static Image Name: | Avonbridge.jpg |
| Static Image Caption: | The centre of Avonbridge, with a war memorial in the foreground |
| Static Image Alt: | A war memorial along a street with houses and cars |
Avonbridge (Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic: Drochaid na h-Aibhne) [1] is a small village which lies within the Falkirk council area of Scotland. The village is 4.8miles south-southeast of the town of Falkirk. Avonbridge sits just inside the council boundary line between Falkirk and West Lothian councils.
The village lies at the junction of the B8028 and B825 roads and is a bridging point over the River Avon, hence the name Avonbridge. At the time of the 2011 census, a population of 652 residents was recorded.[2]
During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries Avonbridge was home to small scale open cast coal mining.[3] The village also had a brickworks in the mid twentieth century, "Avonbridge Brickworks", but today no longer exists.Nowadays the village is largely residential although Avonbridge is the base of operations for "Stevenson Brothers" a haulage company, whose bright orange heavy goods vehicles transport goods across the United Kingdom.
The name Avonbridge derives from the fact that the village crosses a river. The affix "avon" is often found in the Celtic language which denotes the presence of a river,[4] in this case the River Avon. This is found in Scottish Gaelic as "abhainn/a river,"[4] with genitive "aibhne/of a river." Drochaid na h-Aibhne literally means Bridge of the River.