Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Stranathrow

Stranathrow, a fishing-village, with a harbour and a coastguard station, in Fetteresso parish, Kincardineshire, 5 miles NNE of Stonehaven. In gneiss rocks to the S are two magnificent natural arches, 80 feet high and 50 wide, which are washed by the sea at high tide.


(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a fishing-village, with a harbour and a coastguard station"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Fetteresso Parish       Kincardineshire County

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