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Stonehaven 1840
Original hand coloured steel engraving from 1840. Artist : W H Bartlett and engraver: H Griffiths. Image size: 7*4.75 ins. Since these antique prints are over 150 years old they may have minor imperfections
An excerpt from the original description:
STONEHAVEN, like Aberdeen, has its old town and its new; but "with this distinction, that of the latter, the new town is the older of the two." The old town of Stonchaven, or Steenhive as it was formerly written, was built on feus granted by the " Earls Marischal," by one of whom it was erected into a burg of barony. The new town, or " Links of Arduthie," is separated from the old town by a brook, called the water of Carron, and is built upon the estate of the patriotic Mr. Barclay Allardyce, of Ury. It is the county-town ; and hither, in 1660, the sheriff-court was removed from Kincardine by Act of Parliament. On the south-west of a bare rocky promontory, called Garron-point, at the entrance of Stonehaven Bay, are seen the ruins of Cowie Chapel, which is said to have been dedicated to the Blessed Virgin. From this point on the north, called Garron, to that of Downie on the south, is what is termed the Bay of Stonehaven. The town stretches from the bridge over the Cowie river, on the north, to the above-mentioned head-land, Downie Point, on the south ; but it is divided, as already stated, into two parts by the " Carron;" the north part being the new, and the south the old, or sea-town; close to which last, and to Downie Point, which is a protection to it from south-east gales, stands the Harbour, erected, like most others on the east coast, sea-ward. It is a capacious basin, and would contain a great number of vessels, but until lately, when two cross-jetties were built, it was very insecure, or afforded little protection to vessels during north-east and east gales, to which it is much exposed, the entrance being to the east. It is now, however, comparatively secure; and gas-lights being erected, the one bearing on the other, vessels bound southward in winter find it a very agreeable retreat, and about thirty so situated have been seen in it at one time.
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