Tour Scotland photograph of Stonehaven Harbour, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. As late as the 16th century, old maps indicate the town was called Stonehyve or Stonehive. Stonehaven lies adjacent to a deeply indented bay surrounded on three sides by higher land between Downie Point and Garron Point. The harbour, consisting of two basins, was improved in the 1820s by the engineer Robert Stevenson, grandfather of the author Robert Louis Stevenson, and became an important centre of the 19th century herring fishing trade.
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