Kirkton of Fetteresso (geograph 6132677)

Graveyard at Saint Ciarans Church, Kirkton of Fetteresso

The Kirktown of Fetteresso is a well-preserved village near

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. In the planning area of

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, this village contains many very old stone residential structures as well as the Church of St. Ciarans and its associated

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. The Carron Water winds through the Kirktown of Fetteresso, and

Fetteresso Castle Fetteresso Castle is a 14th-century tower house, rebuilt in 1761 as a Scottish Gothic style Palladian manor, with clear evidence of prehistoric use of the site. It is situated immediately west of the town of Stonehaven in Kincardineshire, slightl ...

, a listed building, lies at the northwestern verge. Some of the earliest area prehistory has been found nearby on the Fetteresso Estate grounds, where there have been

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finds from the

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.C.Michael Hogan, ''Fetteresso Fieldnotes'', The Modern Antiquarian (2008)
/ref> Fetteresso was the birthplace of Alexander Wood, who emigrated to

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in 1793 and became a noted businessman and magistrate.Alexander Wood
at the

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. It is also home to Kirktown Garden Centre, a garden centre and restaurant. Today, the

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passes the village. The Stonehaven bypass, now part of the A90, passes between the village and Stonehaven.

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Villages in Aberdeenshire {{Aberdeenshire-stub

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