Stonehaven
This
attractive seaside resort, with heated open-air
Olympic size swimming pool, has a picturesque
and sheltered harbour busy with sailing yachts.
The Tolbooth Museum is a notable building on the
quayside and the great fortress of Dunnottar Castle
on the clifftops to the south delights visitors
from all over the world. Close at hand, Fowlsheugh
RSPB Seabird Colony is home to the largest seabird
colony in mainland Britain.
Tourist
Information Centre,
66 Allardice Street. (01569) 762806. Seasonal.
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Tolbooth
Museum
Oldest Builing in town,
former 16th century storehouse, later a tolbooth,
now museum of local history.
Tel: 01771 622906
Open-Air
Swimming Pool, Stonehaven
Art-deco, heated outdoor pool,
the last surviving of its like in Scotland, updated
and refurbished.
Tel: 01569 762134
Dunnottar
Castle, Stonehaven
Former fortress of the Earls
of Marishal of Scotland and location for Franco
Zeffirelli's, Hamlet
Tel: 01569 762173
Fowlsheugh
R.S.P.B. RESERVE
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