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nr Launrencekirk
Aberdeenshire
on B966
nr Edzell

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Fettercairn


The fettercairn arch

Victorian Follies

We just stopped to snap a picture of this arch -- built in 1864, to commemorate the visit by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert a few years earlier, as they bassed through to stay at Balmoral. It's just such a strange, out-of-place looking stone tower thing that we had to stop.

Fettercairn is near Kinkardine, and there is a mercat cross in the town square (it is notched to show the ell-length in this town, like the ell-wand in Dunkeld). The ruins of the royal castle of Kincardine are also nearby, although there really isn't anything to see above ground.

And a distillery -- producing "Old Fettercairn".


the rest of the main street - fettercairn Public Hall