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Laurencekirk kirk
Laurencekirk Parish Church with its spire.
Image: © Andrew Wood
Taken: 22 Dec 2008
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Kirk burn, Laurencekirk
The burn runs through the centre of the village.
Image: © Bill Harrison
Taken: 21 Apr 2019
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Laurencekirk Parish Church
The Church of Scotland parish church in Laurencekirk.
Image: © Andrew Wood
Taken: 22 Dec 2008
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Site of the Boar’s Head Inn where Robert Burns stayed in Laurencekirk
The photo shows Kirkburn Court, the present-day housing development of flats at the junction of the High Street and Kirkburn in Laurencekirk that was previously in the county of Kincardineshire but is now in Aberdeenshire. The site of the modern block of flats has historic associations, for it was here that the Gardenstone Arms Hotel once stood, which at the time of Burns’ visit was known as the Boar’s Head Inn. Prior to the overnight stay by Robert Burns and Willi Nicol in 1787, Dr. Samuel Johnson and his travelling companion James Boswell had also stayed there on their celebrated tour of 1773 through the Scottish Highlands and Hebrides, some 14 years earlier. In more recent times the old coaching inn became somewhat derelict and was then destroyed by fire, with the site then being redeveloped for flats. In 1972 a brown-coloured plaque with gold lettering was installed in a central position in the front of the new development. The plaque reads:
GARDENSTONE ARMS HOTEL
Here originally the Boar’s Head
Inn ROBERT BURNS stayed
During his only visit to the land
Of his Fathers in Sept 1787.
Also meeting place of Glenbervie
Burns Memorials Association
Which erected this plaque -1972
Image: © Adrian Diack
Taken: 17 Jul 2025
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Hole in the road, Laurencekirk
A development site off Kirkhill.
Image: © Richard Webb
Taken: 2 Aug 2011
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War Memorial, Laurencekirk
Image: © David Francis
Taken: 24 Aug 2008
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Laurencekirk churchyard.
The well-kept churchyard, with tree, of the parish kirk at Laurencekirk.
Image: © Andrew Wood
Taken: 22 Dec 2008
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Laurencekirk industrial estate
Is Laurencekirk still a village or is it morphing into a small town?
Image: © Bill Harrison
Taken: 21 Apr 2019
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Laurencekirk parish kirk
Dating from 1804 with early Gothic revival tracery and B-listed (LB37229): http://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/LB37229 . Compare Echt parish kirk from the same year: https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4631372 .
Image: © Bill Harrison
Taken: 21 Apr 2019
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Royal Hotel, Laurencekirk
At junction of A937 and Station Road.
Image: © Stanley Howe
Taken: 12 Jul 2017
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