See soorce fer Steenhive

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[[File:Stonehaven-Square.jpg|thumb|300px|Stanehyve Square]]
[[Image:Stonehaven-aerial.jpg|thumb|300px|Steenhive frae the air]]
'''Steenhive''' (itherwise kent as ''Stanehyve'', ''Cala na Creige'' in the [[Scots Gaelic|Gaelic]], an ''Stonehaven'' in the Inglis) is a [[toun]] wi aboot ten thousan indwallers (9,577 in the 2001 census) on the nor'eist ([[German Ocean]]) coast o [[Scotland]]. It is the coontie toon o the historic coontie o [[The Mearns]] an the praisent day coontie o [[Aiberdeenshire]]. It growed aroond an [[Airn Age]] fishin clachan, nou the "Auld Toon", an raxt inlaund frae the siesyd.

==Geography==
Steenhive is 15 mile (24&nbsp;km) sooth o [[Aiberdeen]] in a beildie steid on Stanehyve Bay atwein the Carron Wattir an the Cowie Wattir.<ref>United Kingdom Ordnance Survey Map Landranger 45, Stonehaven and Banchory, 1:50,000 scale, 2004</ref> The herbor, maed up o twa bynes, wis bettert in the 1820s bi the ingineer [[Robert Stevenson]] (grandfaither o the writer [[Robert Louis Stevenson]]) an becam an important centur o the 19t yeirhunder herrin tred;<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.scottish-places.info/towns/townfirst184.html | title=Stonehaven| author=Gazeteer for Scotland| accessdate=2007-04-28}}</ref>  the herbor is boond on the north bi Bellman's Heid an at the sooth bi Downie Pynt. At the wastren lip of Stonehaven, wast o the A90 road ligs the veilage [[Kirkton o Fetteresso]]. David Lizars (1754 -1812) etched an image o the toon in 1805 frae the sooth-east (Aiberdeen Art Gallery).

[[File:David Lizars (1754 - 1812) - View of Stonehaven from the South East - ABDAG017336 - Aberdeen City Council (Archives, Gallery and Museums Collection).jpg|300x300px]]

Stonehaven haes growed swith sin the ayl boom in Aiberdeen. The mair demaund for new housin haes seen fower new estates bein eikit til the toun, makkin a whein o [[suburb]]s.

==Laundmerks==
*[[Dunnottar Castil]]
*[[Fetteresso Castil]]
*[[Fowlsheugh Naitur Hainin]]
*[[Muchalls Castil]]
*[[Mackie Academie]]

==Steids o worship==
Steenhive haes three Kirks o Scotland: Dunnottar Pairish Kirk, Steenhive Sooth Pairish Kirk an Fetteresso Pairish Kirk, an evangelical Kirk o Scotland. The toun haes een Baptist Kirk, an Episcopal Kirk an a Catholic kirk anaw.

==Transport==
Steenhive railwey station serves the toun. Despite its smaa size, it is a cawin pynt for a lairge nummer o services gangin baith North tae [[Aiberdeen]] an Sooth tae [[Edinburgh]] an [[Glesga]]. Addeetionally, a service operatin anly atween Aiberdeen, Portlethen an Steenhive haes operatit syne the winter o 2008.

==Referenses==
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