Kincardine and Mearns

Kincardine and Mearns

Kincardine and Mearns is one of six area committees of the Aberdeenshire council area in Scotland. It has a population 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, especially in the north of this region. Existing settlements such as Portlethen and Stonehaven have greatly expanded, along with industrial activity. The southern part is more self-sufficient, with the fertile Mearns area sustaining a strong agricultural economy. Small scale tourism activity occurs along its attractive coastline and former fishing villages.

Kincardine and Deeside district

Between 1975 and 1996 Kincardine and Deeside was a local government district within the Grampian region. Its area included all of the county of Kincardineshire apart from a small area in the northeast which was covered by the City of Aberdeen. As the name suggested, it also included the large geographical area of the watershed of the River Dee from the southern section of Aberdeenshire. In 1996 this district became part of Aberdeenshire unitary authority in the local government reorganisation.

History

In medieval times the northern part of the area known as Kincardine was comprised by the Thanedom of Cowie and the Thanedom of Durris.cite book | first=Andrew | last=Jervise | title=Memorials of Angus and the Mearns, an account historical | publisher=Oxford | year=1861] The Mearns was described as an earldom. Each of these thanages was with the Crown as late as 1264 AD.cite book | first=William Forbes | last=Skene | title=Celtic Scotland: A History of Ancient Alban | publisher=Edmonston & Douglas: Scotland | year=1880] In the Middle Ages the principal roadway connecting Stonehaven to Aberdeen was known as the Causey Mounth;cite web | author=C Michael Hogan | title=Causey Mounth Ancient Trackway | year=2007 | url=http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=17932 | accessdate=2007-11-07] this drovers' road was constructed in some places with large boulders in order to span certain boggy stretches.

During the Scottish Enlightenment period, Lord Monboddo operated a large agricultural estate in the Mearns, at which location he conducted considerable research in agricultural improvement; Monboddo was best known as a jurist on the Court of Session, as the father of modern historical linguistics and a pre-evolutionary thinker.cite book | author=E L Cloyd and James Burnett | title=James Burnett, Lord Monboddo | publisher=Clarendon Press: Oxford | year=1972 | isbn=0-1981243-7-6 ] [cite book | author=Eileen A Bailey | title=The holly and the horn: Burnett of Leys family and branches | publisher=Leys Publishing: Banchory | year=2005 | isbn=0-9538640-2-2]

Notable architecture

*Dunnotar Castle, Muchalls Castle and Fetteresso Castle are located within this district.
*In the village of Muchalls at Victorian times there existed a large hotel, which fell into ruin in the latter 20th century.
*There are numerous prehistoric stone circles, standing stones and cairns within this geographic unit.

Geography and landforms

Rivers and streams in Kincardine and Mearns include the Burn of Elsick, Burn of Pheppie, Burn of Muchalls, Cowie Water, Carron Water and Bervie Water, all of which discharge to the North Sea.

Other notable features

*Fowlsheugh Nature Reserve
*Causey Mounth

References


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