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Mearns Winter Gorse jkl7905jhp Fettercairn Mearns Kincardineshire Scottish gorse hills Cauldcots Farm fields winter rural countryside near the village of Fettercairn situated on the flat rolling fertile farmlands of the Mearns and passed through most often by travellers leaving the main north trunk road to Aberdeen and cutting northwards over the Cairn O’Mount to Deeside. A barony from 1604 and busy market village although the Mercat Cross partly dating from 1670 and currently standing in the village square is probably a relic of past times from the nearby county town of Kincardine. A popular hotel the Ramsay Arms and a working Distillery with a visitor’s centre offer attractions to visitor and I personally remember photographing a Queen Victoria and Prince Albert lookalike starting the Victorian Trail promotion for the then Kincardine and Deeside District Council. Keywords: Scotland, Scottish, Grampian, Aberdeenshire, Kincardineshire, Kincardine, Fettercairn, Barony, Burgh, market, square, landscape, cauldcots, cottages, farm, hills, winter, Mearns, Howe, village, houses, Victorian, Arch, Ramsay, Arms, Hotel, Distillery, Queen, Victoria, Prince, Albert, visit, 1861, Rhenish, Romanesque, Parish, church, Mercat, Cross, Fasque, House, Drumtochty, Glen, Cairn, O’Mount, road, Glensaugh, Clatterin, Brig, rural, farmland, flat, fertile, gorse, fields, hills
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Photographer: Jim Henderson
Collection: Aberdeenshire
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Mearns Winter Gorse jkl7905jhp
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Fettercairn Mearns Kincardineshire Scottish gorse hills Cauldcots Farm fields winter

rural countryside near the village of Fettercairn situated on the flat rolling fertile farmlands of the Mearns and passed through most often by travellers leaving the main north trunk road to Aberdeen and cutting northwards over the Cairn O’Mount to Deeside. A barony from 1604 and busy market village although the Mercat Cross partly dating from 1670 and currently standing in the village square is probably a relic of past times from the nearby county town of Kincardine. A popular hotel the Ramsay Arms and a working Distillery with a visitor’s centre offer attractions to visitor and I personally remember photographing a Queen Victoria and Prince Albert lookalike starting the Victorian Trail promotion for the then Kincardine and Deeside District Council.
Keywords: Scotland, Scottish, Grampian, Aberdeenshire, Kincardineshire, Kincardine, Fettercairn, Barony, Burgh, market, square, landscape, cauldcots, cottages, farm, hills, winter, Mearns, Howe, village, houses, Victorian, Arch, Ramsay, Arms, Hotel, Distillery, Queen, Victoria, Prince, Albert, visit, 1861, Rhenish, Romanesque, Parish, church, Mercat, Cross, Fasque, House, Drumtochty, Glen, Cairn, O’Mount, road, Glensaugh, Clatterin, Brig, rural, farmland, flat, fertile, gorse, fields, hills