Laurencekirk
Laurencekirk is a small town in the historical region of Kincardineshire, Scotland, just off the A90 Dundee to Aberdeen main road, which bypassed it in 1985. It is provided as part of Aberdeenshire. It is the biggest negotiation in the Howe o' the Mearns area and houses the local 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 a commitment to supply cost-free food and board to passing troops. Laurencekirk remains in the valley in between capital of Garvock and also the Cairn O' Mount. The popular landmark 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 closed joint (known as a "Laurencekirk hinge") designed by James Sandy. Laurencekirk Golf Club (currently obsolete) initially appeared in the very early 1900s. The club closed at the time of WW2. Lewis Grassic Gibbon created much about The Mearns and also the surrounding area in his publication Sunset Song. A tribute centre can be gone to at Arbuthnott a few miles from Laurencekirk. Fred Urquhart serviced the land at Laurencekirk in the Second World War, and his short stories take advantage of his observations of country life here.
