Rosehearty

Rosehearty (Scottish Gaelic: Ros Abhartaich) is a settlement on the Moray Firth coast, four miles west of the town Fraserburgh, in the historical county of Aberdeenshire in Scotland.

Rosehearty
Rosehearty
Location within Aberdeenshire
Council area
Lieutenancy area
CountryScotland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townFraserburgh
Postcode districtAB43
PoliceScotland
FireScottish
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UK Parliament
Scottish Parliament
The Grey North Sea oil painting by Archibald Reid (1844-1908) of Rosehearty's pier before the pier extension in about 1895 that included the new lighthouse known as Tam Hied.[2]

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. 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.

Notable people

Rosehearty is the birthplace of:

References
  1. The Online Scots Dictionary
  2. Local expert Janet McLennan


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