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Kincardineshire. Kincardineshire or the County of Kincardine, also known as the Mearns (from the Scottish Gaelic A' Mhaoirne meaning "the stewartry"), is a historic county, registration county and lieutenancy area on the coast of north-east Scotland. It is bounded by Aberdeenshire on the north, and by Angus on the south-west.
Kincardine, Aberdeenshire. Coordinates: 56.8654°N 2.5435°W. Kincardine was a burgh in Scotland, near the present-day village of Fettercairn. It gave its name to and served as the first county town of Kincardineshire . The settlement gradually developed around Kincardine Castle. The origin of the castle is not known, although it has been ...
Kincardine and Deeside was one of five districts created within the Grampian region. The district covered most of the historic county of Kincardineshire and part of the neighbouring county of Aberdeenshire. The new district covered the whole area of ten former districts and parts of another two, which were all abolished at the same time: [3] [4]
Kincardine and Mearns is one of six area committees of the Aberdeenshire council area in Scotland. It has a population of 38,506 (2001 Census). There are significant natural features in this district including rivers, forests, mountains and bogs (known locally as mosses ). Transport links with Aberdeen have encouraged rapid population growth ...
Laurencekirk ( / ˌlɒrənsˈkɜːrk /, Scots: Lowrenkirk, [2] Scottish Gaelic: Eaglais Labhrainn ), locally known as Lournie, is a small town in the historic county of Kincardineshire, Scotland, just off the A90 Dundee to Aberdeen main road. It is administered as part of Aberdeenshire. It is the largest settlement in the Howe o' the Mearns ...
There are 35 UNESCO World Heritage Sites in the United Kingdom and the British Overseas Territories. [2] The UNESCO list contains one designated site in both England and Scotland (the Frontiers of the Roman Empire) plus eighteen exclusively in England, six in Scotland, four in Wales, two in Northern Ireland, and one in each of the overseas territories of Bermuda, Gibraltar, the Pitcairn ...
57°01′55″N2°09′00″W / 57.032°N 2.150°W / 57.032; Newtonhill village in the snow taken from the railway bridge to the north of the village. Newtonhillis a town in Kincardineshire, Scotland. It is popular due to its location, just six miles south of Aberdeenwith easy reach of Stonehavenand with views over the North Sea.
West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine is a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland ( Westminster ), which elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. It was first used in the 1997 general election, but has undergone boundary ...