Laurencekirk
Laurencekirk is a town in the historic county of Kincardineshire, Scotland, just off the A90 Dundee to Aberdeen highway, which bypassed it in 1985. It is carried out as part of Aberdeenshire. It is the biggest settlement in the Howe o' the Mearns location and houses the local senior high 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 commitment to offer free 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 famous spots of the Johnston Tower can be seen on the optimal of the Garvock. Laurencekirk was, in the past, recognized for making snuff boxes with an unique kind of closed hinge (known as a "Laurencekirk hinge") invented by James Sandy. Laurencekirk Golf Club (currently obsolete) first showed up in the very early 1900s. The club shut at the time of WW2. Lewis Grassic Gibbon composed much concerning The Mearns as well as the surrounding location in his book Sunset Song. A tribute centre can be seen at Arbuthnott a couple of miles from Laurencekirk. Fred Urquhart dealt with the land at Laurencekirk in the Second World War, and also his narratives take advantage of his monitorings of rural life right here.
