Laurencekirk
Laurencekirk is a town in the historical county of Kincardineshire, Scotland, just off the A90 Dundee to Aberdeen main road, which bypassed it in 1985. It is administered as part of Aberdeenshire. It is the biggest negotiation in the Howe o' the Mearns area and also houses the neighborhood secondary school; Mearns Academy, which was awarded the Charter Mark in 2003. Its old name was Conveth, an anglification of the Gaelic Coinmheadh, referring to an obligation to supply complimentary food and board to passing troops. Laurencekirk is in the valley in between the Hill of Garvock as well as the Cairn O' Mount. The popular landmark of the Johnston Tower can be seen on the height of the Garvock. Laurencekirk was, in the past, understood for making snuff boxes with an unique sort of impermeable joint (called a "Laurencekirk hinge") developed by James Sandy. Laurencekirk Golf Club (currently defunct) initially showed up in the very early 1900s. The club shut at the time of WW2. Lewis Grassic Gibbon composed much about The Mearns as well as the bordering area in his publication Sunset Song. A tribute centre can be gone to at Arbuthnott a few miles from Laurencekirk. Fred Urquhart worked on the land at Laurencekirk in the Second World War, and also his narratives make use of his monitorings of country life below.
