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Laurencekirk is a town in the historic region of Kincardineshire, Scotland, just off the A90 Dundee to Aberdeen main road, which bypassed it in 1985. It is carried out as part of Aberdeenshire. It is the largest negotiation in the Howe o’ the Mearns location as well as houses the regional secondary school; Mearns Academy, which was granted the Charter Mark in 2003. Its old name was Conveth, an anglification of the Gaelic Coinmheadh, describing an obligation to provide totally free food as well as board to passing troops. Laurencekirk is in the valley between the Hill of Garvock and the Cairn O’ Mount. The well-known site of the Johnston Tower can be seen on the optimal of the Garvock. Laurencekirk was, in the past, recognized for making snuff boxes with an unique type of closed joint (called a “Laurencekirk joint”) created by James Sandy. Laurencekirk Golf Club (now inoperative) initially showed up in the very early 1900s. The club closed at the time of WW2. Lewis Grassic Gibbon wrote much regarding The Mearns and also the surrounding location in his book Sunset Song. A tribute centre can be seen at Arbuthnott a couple of miles from Laurencekirk. Fred Urquhart worked with the land at Laurencekirk in the 2nd World War, and his short stories use his observations of country life below.