Kincardineshire. The name Kincardineshire is also used for a lieutenancy area, a registration county and in the name of Kincardine and Mearns, a committee area of the Aberdeenshire Council. The county town was originally the town of Kincardine (not, as many believe, the village of Kincardine O'Neil, which was in the County of Aberdeen). The town of Kincardine, however, ceased to exist during the Middle Ages. The only visible sign of its previous existence is the ruin of Kincardine Castle, 2 miles north-east of Fettercairn.[1] In 1296, King John Balliol wrote a letter of surrender from the castle to Edward I of England after a short war which marked the beginning of the wars of Scottish independence. In 1600 Parliament caused the government of Kincardineshire to be conducted at the Stonehaven Tolbooth. The county used to go as far north as the River Dee but in 1891 the Royal Burgh of Torry was incorporated into Aberdeen. Structures and sites[edit] Coat of arms[edit] Constituency[edit] Notable people[edit]
Kincardineshire | County-Wise. Kincardineshire is a triangular shire on the North Sea coast, with its southwest border with Angus on the North Esk and its northern with Aberdeenshire on the River Dee. Parts of the City of Aberdeen trespass across the Dee into Kincardineshire. Kincardineshire has also been named “the Mearns”. The county consists of a mixture of cultivated land, woodland and moor, rising into the Grampian mountains. It naturally falls into four districts; the Grampian, the Dee-side, Howe of the Mearns, and the Coast-side.
County Facts County Town: Stonehaven Main Towns: Banchory, Fettercairn, Inverbervie, Kincardine, Laurencekirk, St Cyrus, Stonehaven. Main Rivers: Dee, North Esk, Dye, Cowie. Highlights: Dunnotar Castle; Howe of Mearns stone cirlce; Crathes Castle. Highest Point: Mount Battock, 2555 feet. Area: 380 sq miles County Flower: Clustered Bellflower. Overview of Old County of Kincardineshire. Kincardineshire Observer. Old County of Kincardineshire Map. Kincardineshire - The Many Unknown Attractions of Kincardineshire. Overview Composed by four districts (the Grampian, the Dee-side, the valley or Howe of the Mearns, and the Coast-side), the former county of Kincardineshire rests upon the eastern coats of Scotland and is bounded by the North Sea on its easternmost side. Since the year 1996, Kincardineshire is a part of Aberdeenshire from the Grampian region, a region to which it belongs since the year 1975.
The land of Kincardineshire is graced by the pass of the many notorious rivers across its lands, among which are the Cowie Water, the Carron Water and many others that lead to the coast. Along the lands of Kincardineshire, many known castles are also spread out, among of which is the Dunottar Castle, located south of Stonehaven.
Kincardineshire is also divided by the river Dee and, even though considered small in size, it hosts many different natural locations, like rivers, forests and even small lakes. Short History However, Kincardineshire was not always as described above. Stonehaven. Coordinates : Stonehaven ( i / s t oʊ n ˈ h eɪ v ən / ; Scots : Stanehyve [ 2 ] or Steenhive [ 3 ] [stinˈhaiv] ( listen ) ) is a town in Aberdeenshire , Scotland . It lies on Scotland's northeast coast and had a population of 9,577 in 2001 census. [ 1 ] As the old county town of Kincardineshire , Stonehaven grew around an Iron Age fishing village, now the "Auld Toon" ("old town"), and expanded inland from the seaside.
As late as the 16th century, old maps indicate the town was called Stonehyve or Stonehive . It is known informally to locals as Stoney . The town is served by Stonehaven railway station , and lies just to the east of the A90 road . History [ edit ] The Covenanters were imprisoned in Dunnottar Castle , where many died. Dunnottar Castle , perched atop a rocky outcrop , was home to the Keith family, and during the Scottish Wars of Independence , the Scottish Crown Jewels were hidden there. Stonehaven Beach Geography [ edit ] Stonehaven from the air Places of worship [ edit ]
Dunnottar Castle. Dunnottar Castle (Scottish Gaelic: Dùn Fhoithear, "fort on the shelving slope"[1]) is a ruined medieval fortress located upon a rocky headland on the north-east coast of Scotland, about 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) south of Stonehaven. The surviving buildings are largely of the 15th and 16th centuries, but the site is believed to have been fortified in the Early Middle Ages. Dunnottar has played a prominent role in the history of Scotland through to the 18th-century Jacobite risings because of its strategic location and defensive strength. Dunnottar is best known as the place where the Honours of Scotland, the Scottish crown jewels, were hidden from Oliver Cromwell's invading army in the 17th century. The property of the Keiths from the 14th century, and the seat of the Earl Marischal, Dunnottar declined after the last Earl forfeited his titles by taking part in the Jacobite rebellion of 1715.
History[edit] Early Middle Ages[edit] Later Middle Ages[edit] 16th century rebuilding[edit] Dunnottar Castle. Lewis Grassic Gibbon. Lewis Grassic Gibbon was the pseudonym of James Leslie Mitchell (13 February 1901 – 7 February 1935), a Scottish writer. Biography[edit] Born in Auchterless and raised in Arbuthnott, then in Kincardineshire, Mitchell started working as a journalist for the Aberdeen Journal and the Scottish Farmer at age 16.
In 1919 he joined the Royal Army Service Corps and served in Iran, India and Egypt before enlisting in the Royal Air Force in 1920. In the RAF he worked as a clerk and spent some time in the Middle East. In 1934 Mitchell collaborated with Hugh MacDiarmid on Scottish Scene which included three of Gibbon's short stories. The Grassic Gibbon Centre was established in Arbuthnott in 1991 to commemorate the author's life. Bibliography[edit] References[edit] Further reading[edit] Ian Campbell, Lewis Grassic Gibbon (Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1985).Douglas Gifford, Neil M. External links[edit]
Richard Henry Brunton. Richard Henry Brunton FRGS MICE (26 December 1841 – 24 April 1901) was the so-called "Father of Japanese lighthouses". Brunton was born in Muchalls, Kincardineshire, Scotland.[1] He was employed by the Japanese Government as a foreign advisor (o-yatoi gaikokujin) to build lighthouses in Japan. Early life[edit] Career[edit] Life in Japan[edit] Under pressure from British minister Sir Harry Parkes to fulfil its obligations to make the waters and harbors of Japan safe for shipping, the Japanese government hired the Edinburgh-based firm of D. and T.
Stevenson to chart coastal waters and to build lighthouses where appropriate. The project had already begun under French foreign advisor Léonce Verny, but was not proceeding fast enough for the British. The old pre-Brunton Shirasu lighthouse in the grounds of Kokura Castle Brunton also established a system of lighthouse keepers, modeled on the Northern Lighthouse Board in Scotland.
Return to Britain[edit] List of Brunton's Japanese Lighthouses[edit]
Christian Fletcher. Kinneff Old Kirk. The earlier church, in which the Scottish Regalia were hidden in 1651, was largely rebuilt in 1738. Christian Fletcher, Lady Abercrombie, (1619 or 1620, Kinneff, Kincardineshire – February 1691) was a Scottish minister's wife who saved the Honours of Scotland from Cromwell's troops during the English invasion of Scotland.[1] She married James Sandilands, first Lord Abercrombie in 1663.
See also[edit] Charles II's coronation at Scone Abbey on 1 January 1651 References[edit] Further reading[edit] Baden-Powell, Agnes; Baden-Powell, Robert (1912). Oxford DNB article: Fletcher, Christian. Scot Sites eBooks - The Castle of Edinburgh. The following is from The Castle of Edinburgh by G. F. Maine: THE door in the octagonal tower leads to the small apartment known as the Regalia Room. Here, after many wanderings and divers adventures, repose the crown jewels of Scotland. The Regalia were exposed at the sittings of the Scottish Parliament down to the Union, when the Earl Marischal was called upon to surrender them to the Commissioners of the Treasury, but this he declined to do in person, and ordered a Junior Clerk of Session to deliver them to the Commissioners.
Covered with glass and secured in a strong iron cage, the regalia now lie on a white marble table in the Crown Room, together with four other memorials of the House of Stuart, which belonged to Cardinal York and were deposited there by order of King William in 1830. Banqueting Hall. James Murdoch (Scottish journalist) James Murdoch (27 September 1856 – 30 October 1921) was a Scottish scholar and journalist , who worked as a teacher in the Empire of Japan and Australia . From 1903–1917, he wrote the three-volume A History of Japan , the first comprehensive history of Japan in the English language . The third volume was published posthumously in 1926. [ 1 ] Early life [ edit ] Murdoch was born in Stonehaven , near Aberdeen , in Scotland .
He exhibited signs of intellectual brilliance as a child, and although his family was of moderate means, he won a scholarship to Aberdeen University where he completed a bachelor's and master's degree. Regarded as a genius in foreign languages, at the age of 24, he suddenly resigned from his post as a professor and decided to emigrate to Australia .
Life in Australia [ edit ] Murdoch taught in Queensland Australia from July 1881–1889 as headmaster of the new Maryborough Grammar School. Life in Japan [ edit ] Life in Paraguay and London [ edit ] Return to Japan [ edit ]