Laurencekirk
Sign in to saveright|thumb|250px|Kinnear Square lies at the south end of Laurencekirk.
Key facts
- UK place.official_name
- Laurencekirk
- UK place.country
- Scotland
- UK place.population_ref
- ()
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- NO7171
- UK place.map_type
- Scotland
- UK place.post_town
- LAURENCEKIRK
- UK place.postcode_area
- AB
- UK place.postcode_district
- AB30
- UK place.dial_code
- 01561
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine
- UK place.gaelic_name
- Eaglais Labhrainn/Coinmheadh
- UK place.scots_name
- Lowrenkirk
- UK place.unitary_scotland
- Aberdeenshire
- UK place.lieutenancy_scotland
- Kincardineshire
- UK place.constituency_scottish_parliament
- Angus North and Mearns
- UK place.edinburgh_distance_mi
- 67
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- 20th century to present
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right|thumb|250px|Kinnear Square lies at the south end of Laurencekirk.
Laurencekirk (, , ), locally known as Lournie or simply 'The Kirk', is a small town in the historic county of Kincardineshire, Scotland, just off the A90 Dundee to Aberdeen main road. It is administered as part of Aberdeenshire. It is the largest settlement in the Howe o' the Mearns area and houses the local secondary school; Mearns Academy, which was established in 1895 and awarded the Charter Mark in 2003.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Laurencekirk” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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