Tour Scotland Video Young Scots Folk Festival Stonehaven

Tour Scotland video of young Scots musicians at the Folk Festival in Stonehaven Scotland. Stonehaven is a town in Aberdeenshire. It lies on Scotland's north east coast. After the demise of the town of Kincardine, which was gradually abandoned after the destruction of its Royal castle in the Wars of Independence, the Scottish Parliament made Stonehaven the successor county town of Kincardineshire. Stonehaven had grown around an Iron Age fishing village, and expanded inland from the seaside. As late as the 16th century, old maps indicate the town was called Stonehyve, Stonehive, Pont also adding the alternative Duniness. It is known informally to locals as Stoney.

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October 14th Photograph Sundial Stonehaven Harbour Scotland

October 14th photograph of the sundial at Stonehaven Harbour, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Photograph Stonehaven Harbour

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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Old Photograph Stonehaven Scotland

Old photograph of the harbour and houses in Stonehaven, South of Aberdeen, Scotland. This town in Aberdeenshire, was a Jacobite town in the Jacobite rising of 1715 and it was a safe base for the retreating Jacobite army to stay overnight on the night of 5 February 1716. In the Jacobite rising of 1745, part of the Episcopalian north east, was again reliably Jacobite and it was one of the north eastern fishing ports where reinforcements, plus money and equipment were periodically landed from France.



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