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{{Short description|Village in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK}}
[[Image:Marykirk High Street after Floods.JPG|thumb|Marykirk High Street after floods,
[[Image:Marykirk Church.JPG|thumb|Marykirk Church]]
[[Image:Marykirk Old Kirk and Kirkyard.JPG|thumb|Marykirk
'''Marykirk''' ({{lang-gd|Obar Luathnait}}) is a
The village is approximately 6 miles ENE of [[Montrose, Angus|Montrose]] at the southern end of the Howe of the Mearns. The road bridge carrying the [[A937]] over the
The present parish church was rebuilt in 1806 replacing the previous church, the remains of which can be found in the adjacent kirkyard. The older church was dedicated to St Mary and consecrated in 1242 by the Bishop de Bernham. The settlement and parish were called Aberluthnot before being renamed after the church. The village was made a [[burgh of barony]] in 1540 in favour of David [[Barclay of Mathers]] by Cardinal [[David Beaton]] in 1540, confirmed in 1543 by [[Mary, Queen of Scots|Queen Mary]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Bute, Marquess of|first1=John Patrick Crichton-Stuart|author-link=John Patrick Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute|last2=Stevenson|first2=John Horne|last3=Lonsdale|first3=H. W.|title=The arms of the baronial and police burghs of Scotland|date=1903|publisher=Blackwood|location=Edinburgh|chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/armsofbaronialpo00buterich#page/8|chapter=Aberluthnot|page=8}}
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The centre of the village has an ancient market cross. The grand gates to the now demolished mansion Kirktonhill House, built in 1799 for the Taylor family, once the home of oil merchant R W Adamson, can be found still in position.<ref>{{cite
The village also has a small primary school of
A rare example of a [[morthouse]] is located in the churchyard, built to frustrate the activities of bodysnatchers in the 19th century.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Marykirk mort house|url=https://www.abdn.ac.uk/bodysnatchers/SiteRecords/mort_houses/Marykirk_mort_house.html|access-date=2021-02-22|website=www.abdn.ac.uk}}</ref>
From 1996-2002, and then 2009-2019 the village has held an annual raft race in the River North Esk. It could not restart after some preventative work was done on the railway bridge, making it too dangerous for the raft race to proceed.
Marykirk was also the site of the world's
Up until the end of July 2010, the village also
▲Marykirk was also the site of the world's first first electricity generating wind turbine, built by [[James Blyth (engineer)|James Blyth]] to light his summer residence in the village.<ref>{{cite web|last=Price |first=Trevor J.|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/dnb/100957.html|title=Blyth, James (1839–1906) {{subscription}}|work=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|publisher=Oxford University Press|edition=online|year=2004|accessdate=9 October 2009}}</ref>
▲Up until the end of July 2010, the village also has its own amateur Weather Station [http://www.marykirkweather.com/]
==Notable people==
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* [[James Blyth (engineer)| James Blyth]] (1839-1906), electrical engineer
* [[Wally Kinnear]] (1880-1974), rower
== References ==
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==Sources==
*[http://www.scottish-places.info/towns/townfirst4192.html Marykirk] in the ''[[Gazetteer for Scotland]]''
*[http://www.mearns.org/marykirk.htm Marykirk] in ''The History of the Howe''
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[[Category:Villages in Aberdeenshire]]
[[Category:Parishes in Kincardineshire]]
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