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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 ...
Kincardineshire. Replaced by. Kincardine & Western Aberdeenshire. Kincardineshire was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1708 to 1801 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1918. It was represented by one Member of Parliament (MP).
Banchory-Devenick. Coordinates: 57°06′46″N 2°9′23″W. Banchory-Devenick ( Scottish Gaelic: Beannchar Dòmhnaig [1]) is a hamlet approximately two kilometres south of the city of Aberdeen, Scotland in the Lower Deeside area of Aberdeenshire. [2] The hamlet should not be confused with the historic civil parish of the same name which ...
Career. He was the eldest son of James Wishart of Cairnbeg in the parish of Fordoun in Aberdeenshire. His grandfather, James Wishart of Pittarrow had been clerk of the justiciary court and king's advocate. John succeeded his uncle, John Wishart, in the lands and barony of Pittarrow in 1545. Pittarrow is also often spelled "Pitarro".
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 ...
Aberdeen and Kincardine East (or East Aberdeenshire and Kincardineshire) was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 to 1950. The constituency elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. As created in 1918, the constituency was largely a replacement ...
Replaced by. East Aberdeenshire and West Aberdeenshire. Aberdeen and Kincardine Central, also known as Central Aberdeenshire, [1] was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 until 1950. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.