Stonehaven

Stonehaven is a town in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It lies on Scotland's upper east drift and had a populace of 11,602. After the death of the town of Kincardine, which was step by step deserted after the devastation of its regal mansion in the Wars of Independence, the Scottish Parliament made Stonehaven the successor province town of Kincardineshire. Stonehaven had developed around an Iron Age angling town, now the "Auld Toon", and extended inland from the ocean side. As late as the sixteenth century, old maps show the town was called Stonehyve, Stonehive, Pont additionally including the option Duniness. It is referred to casually to local people as Stoney.

The town is served by Stonehaven railroad station, and lies just toward the east of the A90 road. Stonehaven is the site of ancient occasions confirm by finds at Fetteresso Castle and Neolithic stoneware unearthings from the Spurryhillock area. The town lies at the southern source of the old Causey Mounth trackway, which was based on high ground to make acceptable this just accessible medieval course from beach front directs south toward Aberdeen. This antiquated section particularly associated the Bridge of Dee to Cowie Castle by means of the Portlethen Moss and the Stonehaven focal court.