Rosehearty
Rosehearty
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The Square (B9031) | |
Location within Aberdeenshire | |
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Lieutenancy area | |
Country | Scotland |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | Fraserburgh |
Postcode district | AB43 |
Police | Scotland |
Fire | Scottish |
Ambulance | Scottish |
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Rosehearty (Scottish Gaelic: Ros Abhartaich) is a settlement on the Moray Firth coast, four miles west of the town Fraserburgh, in the historical county of Aberdeenshire in Scotland.
The burgh has a population of approximately 1,300 with about 25 per cent of pensionable age. There is one shop, a butcher, a hairdresser and two hotels in the village.
A new modern Rosehearty Primary School was built in 2007 and accommodates seven classrooms, an ICT computer suite and a games hall with retractable theatre seating and complementary acoustics and lighting. The school caters for approximately 140-160 pupils in total.
Etymology
The name Rosehearty was documented in 1508 as Rossawarty and is derived from Gaelic ros, meaning "cape, headland", and the personal name Abhartach.[2]
History
The settlement which is now Rosehearty was founded by a group of shipwrecked Danes in the 14th century.[3] In 1424 the Fraser family built Pitsligo Castle a few hundred yards inland at Pitsligo; the castle was enlarged by the Forbes family in 1570. The remains of the castle are visible from Rosehearty.
Rosehearty did not officially exist until it was granted a charter in the 1680s by King Charles II.[3]
Geography
Rosehearty Beach forms a cresent shape stretching east from the harbour to a group of rocky outcrops.[4] Several rock formations in the area are known as Long Craig, Hungry Hoy, The Pen, Mounsie Weat, Tamhead, Warey Craigs and Damar.[5]
Architecture
The Lodging House, on the south side of the Square, was built in 1753 for the dowager Lady Pitsligo,[6] while another old house, the "Jam", bears the date 1573.[3]
Notable people
Rosehearty is the birthplace of:
- Hugh Mercer (1726–1777), British/American soldier and physician
- Sir Walter Murdoch (1874–1970), Australian essayist and academic
- Lawrence Ogilvie (1898–1980), plant pathologist
Gallery
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Reproduction of a watercolour painting of Rosehearty, 2 September 1905 (Robert Weir Allan)
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The Grey North Sea oil painting by Archibald Reid (1844–1908) of Rosehearty's pier before the pier extension in about 1895 that included the new lighthouse known as Tam Hied
References
- ^ The Online Scots Dictionary
- ^ Watson, W.J.; Taylor, Simon (2011). The Celtic Place-Names of Scotland (reprint ed.). Birlinn LTD. p. 387. ISBN 9781906566357.
- ^ a b c Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Graphic and Accurate Description of Every Place in Scotland, Frances Hindes Groome (1901), p. 1383
- ^ "Rosehearty Beach - Grampian - UK". The Beach Guide.
- ^ "ScotlandsPlaces". ScotlandsPlaces. Retrieved 21 March 2021.
- ^ Rosehearty The Lodging House - Canmore.org.uk
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