Steenhive
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Steenhive (itherwise kent as Stanehyve, Cala na Creige in the Gaelic, an Stonehaven in the Inglis) is a toun wi aboot ten thousan indwallers (9,577 in the 2001 census) on the nor'eist (German Ocean) coast o Scotland. It is the coontie toon o the historic coontie o The Mearns an the praisent day coontie o Aiberdeenshire. It growed aroond an Airn Age fishin clachan, nou the "Auld Toon", an raxt inlaund frae the siesyd.
Steenhive is 15 mile (24 km) sooth o Aiberdeen in a beildie steid on Stanehyve Bay atwein the Carron Wattir an the Cowie Wattir.[1] The herbor, maed up o twa bynes, wis bettert in the 1820s bi the ingineer Robert Stevenson (grandfaither o the writer Robert Louis Stevenson) an becam an important centur o the 19t yeirhunder herrin tred;[2] the herbor is boond on the north bi Bellman's Heid an at the sooth bi Downie Pynt. At the wastren lip of Stonehaven, wast o the A90 road ligs the veilage Kirkton o Fetteresso. David Lizars (1754 -1812) etched an image o the toon in 1805 frae the sooth-east (Aiberdeen Art Gallery).
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Stonehaven haes growed swith sin the ayl boom in Aiberdeen. The mair demaund for new housin haes seen fower new estates bein eikit til the toun, makkin a whein o suburbs.
- Dunnottar Castil
- Fetteresso Castil
- Fowlsheugh Naitur Hainin
- Muchalls Castil
- Mackie Academie
Steenhive haes three Kirks o Scotland: Dunnottar Pairish Kirk, Steenhive Sooth Pairish Kirk an Fetteresso Pairish Kirk, an evangelical Kirk o Scotland. The toun haes een Baptist Kirk, an Episcopal Kirk an a Catholic kirk anaw.
Steenhive railwey station serves the toun. Despite its smaa size, it is a cawin pynt for a lairge nummer o services gangin baith North tae Aiberdeen an Sooth tae Edinburgh an Glesga. Addeetionally, a service operatin anly atween Aiberdeen, Portlethen an Steenhive haes operatit syne the winter o 2008.
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