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Laurencekirk is a town in the historical region of Kincardineshire, Scotland, just off the A90 Dundee to Aberdeen highway, which bypassed it in 1985. It is administered as part of Aberdeenshire. It is the biggest negotiation in the Howe o’ the Mearns area and houses the neighborhood secondary school; Mearns Academy, which was awarded the Charter Mark in 2003. Its old name was Conveth, an anglification of the Gaelic Coinmheadh, describing an obligation to offer cost-free food as well as board to passing troops. Laurencekirk remains in the valley between the Hill of Garvock as well as the Cairn O’ Mount. The well-known site of the Johnston Tower can be seen on the height of the Garvock. Laurencekirk was, in the past, understood for making snuff boxes with a special type of closed hinge (referred to as a “Laurencekirk joint”) designed by James Sandy. Laurencekirk Golf Club (currently defunct) initially appeared in the early 1900s. The club shut at the time of WW2. Lewis Grassic Gibbon created much about The Mearns as well as the bordering location in his book Sunset Song. A homage centre can be checked out at Arbuthnott a couple of miles from Laurencekirk. Fred Urquhart serviced the land at Laurencekirk in the 2nd World War, and his short stories use his observations of country life below.