Laurencekirk
Laurencekirk is a town in the historical region of Kincardineshire, Scotland, just off the A90 Dundee to Aberdeen highway, which bypassed it in 1985. It is provided as part of Aberdeenshire. It is the largest negotiation in the Howe o' the Mearns location and also houses the neighborhood secondary school; Mearns Academy, which was granted the Charter Mark in 2003. Its old name was Conveth, an anglification of the Gaelic Coinmheadh, referring to a responsibility to offer complimentary food and also board to passing soldiers. Laurencekirk remains in the valley between capital of Garvock as well as the Cairn O' Mount. The renowned site of the Johnston Tower can be seen on the top of the Garvock. Laurencekirk was, in the past, understood for making snuff boxes with an unique kind of impermeable hinge (known as a "Laurencekirk hinge") developed by James Sandy. Laurencekirk Golf Club (now defunct) initially showed up in the early 1900s. The club shut at the time of WW2. Lewis Grassic Gibbon wrote much concerning The Mearns and also the surrounding location in his book Sunset Song. A tribute centre can be gone to at Arbuthnott a couple of miles from Laurencekirk. Fred Urquhart worked with the land at Laurencekirk in the Second World War, and his short stories make use of his observations of rural life here.
