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'''Rosehearty''' is a village and burgh on the [[Moray Firth]] coast of [[Aberdeenshire]], four miles west of the town [[Fraserburgh]].
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'''Rosehearty''' is a village and burgh on the [[Moray Firth]] coast of [[Aberdeenshire]], four miles west of the town of [[Fraserburgh]].
  
 
The village has a population of approximately 1,300 with about 25 per cent of pensionable age. There is one shop, a butcher, a hairdresser and three hotels in the village.
 
The village has a population of approximately 1,300 with about 25 per cent of pensionable age. There is one shop, a butcher, a hairdresser and three hotels in the village.

Latest revision as of 21:31, 24 June 2020

Rosehearty
Gaelic: Ros Abhartaich
Aberdeenshire
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Location
Data
Post town: Fraserburgh
Postcode: AB43
Local Government
Council: Aberdeenshire
Parliamentary
constituency:
Banff and Buchan

Rosehearty is a village and burgh on the Moray Firth coast of Aberdeenshire, four miles west of the town of Fraserburgh.

The village has a population of approximately 1,300 with about 25 per cent of pensionable age. There is one shop, a butcher, a hairdresser and three hotels in the village.

According to local legend, the village which is now Rosehearty was founded by a group of shipwrecked Danes in the 14th century. In 1424 the Fraser family built Pitsligo Castle a few hundred yards inland which was then later enlarged by the Forbes family in 1570. The remains of the Castle are visible from Rosehearty. Rosehearty was granted a charter in the 1680s by King Charles II.

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