BERVIE, or INVERBERVIE  , a royal and police burgh of Kincardineshire, Scotland . Pop . (1901) 1207 . It is situated at the mouth of Bervie Water and is the terminus of the North British railway's branch line from Montrose, which lies 14 M . S.W . The leading industries include manufactures of woollens, flax and chemicals, and there is also a brisk trade in live-stock . Bervie unites with Arbroath, Brechin, Forfar and Montrose in returning one member (for the " Montrose burghs ") to parliament . David II., driven by stress of weather, landed here with his queen Joanna in 1341, and, out of gratitude for the hospitalityof the townsfolk, granted them a charter, which James VI. con-firmed . Hallgreen Castle, a stronghold of the 14th century, is maintained in repair . About one m. south is the fishing village of Gourdon (pop . 1197), where boat-building is carried an . There is a small but steady export business from the harbour, which has a pier and breakwater .

St Ternan's, the Romanesque

parish church of Arbuthnott, 21 M. north-west, stands on the banks of the Bervie . In the chapel dedicated to St Mary, which was afterwards added to it, is the burial-place of the Arbuthnotts, who took their title from the estate in 1644 . John Arbuthnot, Queen Anne's physician and the friend of Swift and Pope, was a native of the parish . Kinneff, 2 M. north, on the coast, is of interest as the place where the Scottish regalia were concealed during the siege of Dunottar Castle .