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Stonehaven
(
Steenhive
in the
Doric
dialect of
Scots
) and
Cala na Creige
in
Gaelic
is a town with around fourteen thousand inhabitants (9,577 in the 2001 census) on the northeast coast of
Scotland
. It is the county town of the historic county of
Kincardineshire
or
The Mearns
and the present day county of
Aberdeenshire
. It 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
.
Stonehaven was the birthplace of
Robert William Thomson
, inventor of the
pneumatic tyre
and the
fountain pen
, of journalist
James Murdoch
and
Lord Reith of Stonehaven
, first Director-General of the
BBC
.
Stonehaven was a holiday retreat of the poet,
Robert Burns
.
The
novelist
Lewis Grassic Gibbon
(James Leslie Mitchell) attended school at what was the old
Mackie Academy
(now Arduthie Primary). Mackie Academy now serves over 1000 pupils and they study his work.
Famous historical visitors include
William Wallace
and
Mary Queen of Scots
.
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