Rosehearty
Rosehearty
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Location within Aberdeenshire | |
Council area | |
Lieutenancy area | |
Country | Scotland |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | Fraserburgh |
Postcode district | AB43 |
Police | Scotland |
Fire | Scottish |
Ambulance | Scottish |
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Scottish Parliament | |
Rosehearty (Template:Lang-gd) 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.
The settlement which is now Rosehearty was founded by a group of shipwrecked Danes in the 14th century.[citation needed] In 1424 the Fraser family built Pitsligo Castle a few hundred yards inland; the castle was enlarged by the Forbes family in 1570. The remains of the Castle are visible from Rosehearty.
Rosehearty didn't officially exist until it was granted a charter in the 1680s by King Charles II.[citation needed]
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
References
- ^ The Online Scots Dictionary
- ^ Local expert Janet McLennan
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