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FETTERCAIRN

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 296 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FETTERCAIRN  , a

burgh of
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barony of Kincardineshire, Scotland, 41 M . N.W. of Laurencekirk . Pop. of parish (Igor) 1390 . The chief structures include a public hall, library and
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reading-
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room, and the arch built to commemorate the visit of Queen Victoria in 1861 . The most interesting relic, however, is the market
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cross, which originally belonged to the
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extinct
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town of Kincardine . To the S.W. is Balbegno Castle, dating from 1509, and planned on a scale that threatened to ruin its projector . It contains a lofty hall of
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fine proportions . Two miles N. is Fasque, the estate of the Gladstones, which was acquired in 1831 by
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Sir John Gladstone (1764-1851), the
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father of W . E . Gladstone . The castle, which stands in beautiful grounds, was built in 1809 . Sir John Gladstone's tomb is in the Episcopal church of St Andrew, which he erected and endowed .

In the immediate vicinity are the ruins of the royal castle of Kincardine, where, according to tradition,

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Kenneth III. was assassinated in 1005, although he is more generally said to have been slain in
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battle at Monzievaird, near
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Crieff in
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Perthshire .

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