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Stonehaven

Stonehaven is a small fishing port in in , 15 miles south of Aberdeen. Its main attraction is Dunnottar Castle, scenically perched on a headland south of town.
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  • Type: Town with 11,200 residents
  • Description: town in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK
  • Also known as: “Cala na Creige”, “Kilwhang”, and “Steenhive”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Dunnottar Castle and Stonehaven railway station.

Castle
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is a ruined medieval fortress located upon a rocky headland on the northeast coast of , about 2 miles south of Stonehaven in .

Railway station
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serves the town of Stonehaven in , , . It is sited 224 miles 74 chains from via , on the Dundee to Aberdeen line, and is situated between and .

Museum
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The is a late 16th-century stone building originally used as a courthouse and a prison in the town of Stonehaven, , .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kirktown of Fetteresso and Tewel.

Village
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The is a well-preserved village near Stonehaven, . In the planning area of Kincardine and Mearns, , this village contains many very old stone residential structures as well as the Church of St.

Hamlet
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is a hamlet located approximately two miles west of Stonehaven, Kincardineshire on the Auchenblae Road in Northeast . It consists of:… is situated 2½ miles west of Stonehaven.

Quarter
is an industrial area of Stonehaven, , . The site's settlement history is associated with events at the nearby Chapel of St.

Stonehaven

Latitude
56.964° or 56° 57′ 51″ north
Longitude
-2.2088° or 2° 12′ 32″ west
Population
11,200
Elevation
36 feet (11 metres)
IATA airport code
QXL
United Nations Location Code
GB SVN
Open location code
9C8VXQ7R+JF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26668929
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2636814
Wiki­data ID
Q1002177
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Stonehaven” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ستونهيفن”
  • Asturian: “Stonehaven”
  • Basque: “Stonehaven”
  • Bengali: “স্টোনহ্যাভেন”
  • Bulgarian: “Стонехавен”
  • Catalan: “Cala na Creige”
  • Catalan: “Steenhive”
  • Catalan: “Stonehaven”
  • Cebuano: “Stonehaven”
  • Chinese: “斯冬希文”
  • Chinese: “斯通黑文”
  • Croatian: “Cala na Creige”
  • Croatian: “Steenhive”
  • Czech: “Cala na Creige”
  • Czech: “Steenhive”
  • Danish: “Stonehaven”
  • Dutch: “Cala na Creige”
  • Dutch: “Steenhive”
  • Dutch: “Stonehaven”
  • Esperanto: “Cala na Creige”
  • Esperanto: “Steenhive”
  • Esperanto: “Stonehaven”
  • Esperanto: “ŝtonhaveno”
  • Estonian: “Cala na Creige”
  • Estonian: “Steenhive”
  • Finnish: “Stonehaven”
  • French: “Cala na Creige”
  • French: “Steenhive”
  • French: “Stonehaven”
  • Galician: “Stonehaven”
  • German: “Cala na Creige”
  • German: “Steenhive”
  • German: “Stonehaven”
  • Greek: “Στοουνχέιβεν”
  • Gujarati: “સ્ટોનહેવન”
  • Hebrew: “סטונהייבן”
  • Indonesian: “Stonehaven”
  • Irish: “Cala na Creige”
  • Italian: “Cala na Creige”
  • Italian: “Steenhive”
  • Italian: “Stonehaven”
  • Japanese: “ストーンヘーヴン”
  • Japanese: “ストーンヘイヴン”
  • Japanese: “ストーンヘイブン”
  • Kannada: “ಸ್ಟೋನ್ಹೇವನ್”
  • Korean: “스톤헤이번”
  • Latvian: “Cala na Creige”
  • Latvian: “Steenhive”
  • Lithuanian: “Cala na Creige”
  • Lithuanian: “Steenhive”
  • Lithuanian: “Stonhevenas”
  • Low German: “Cala na Creige”
  • Low German: “Steenhaven”
  • Low German: “Steenhive”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Cala na Creige”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Steenhive”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Stonehaven”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Stonehaven”
  • Norwegian: “Stonehaven”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Stonehaven”
  • Persian: “استونهاون”
  • Polish: “Cala na Creige”
  • Polish: “Steenhive”
  • Polish: “Stonehaven”
  • Portuguese: “Cala na Creige”
  • Portuguese: “Steenhive”
  • Portuguese: “Stonehaven”
  • Romanian: “Stonehaven”
  • Russian: “Стоунхейвен”
  • Scots: “Stanehyve”
  • Scots: “Steenhive”
  • Scots: “Stonehaven”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Cala na Cloiche”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Cala na Creige”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Sròn na h-Aibhne”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Stonehaven”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Stonehaven”
  • Slovenian: “Stonehaven”
  • Spanish: “Cala na Creige”
  • Spanish: “Steenhive”
  • Spanish: “Stonehaven”
  • Swedish: “Cala na Creige”
  • Swedish: “Steenhive”
  • Swedish: “Stonehaven”
  • Swiss German: “Cala na Creige”
  • Swiss German: “Steenhive”
  • Tamil: “ஸ்டோனேஹாவின்”
  • Telugu: “స్టోన్ హెవెన్”
  • Ukrainian: “Стонгейвен”
  • Ukrainian: “Стонхейвен”
  • Urdu: “سٹنیہاوین”
  • Welsh: “Stonehaven”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Stonehaven”. Photo: Simon Burchell, CC BY-SA 4.0.