•  Cowie, Kincardineshire

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In 1882-4, Frances Groome's Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland described Cowie like this:

Cowie, a fishing village and a stream of Kincardineshire. The village, in Fetteresso parish, stands on the N side of Stonehaven Bay, and ¾ mile N by E of Stonehaven town. Anciently it was a free burgh, under charter of Malcolm Ceannmor, who, on a rock overlooking the sea, is said to have built a small fortalice- the Castle of Cowie. ...

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Of this some vestiges remain, while its First Pointed chapel, which afterwards belonged to Marischal College, Aberdeen, is a picturesque ruin, with a burying-ground still in use. Cowie House, hard by, is a seat of Alex. Innes, Esq. of Raemoir (b. 1812; suc. 1863), who owns 4750 acres in the shire, valued at £2847 per annum. Cowie Water, rising on the western border of Glenbervie parish at 1000 feet above sea-level, winds 13 miles eastward through the rocky and wooded scenery of Glenbervie and Fetteresso parishes, and at stonehaven falls into Stonehaven Bay. It is fairly stocked with small trout; is subject to high freshets, which often do considerable damage; and is crossed, ¾ mile NNW of Stonehaven, by the grand fourteen-arched Glenury Viaduct of the Aberdeen railway, which, in one part 190 feet high, commands a fine view of the river's ravine, the vale and town of Stonehaven, Dunnottar Castle, and other features of the surrounding landscape. --Ord. Sur., shs. 66, 67, 1871.

Cowie through time

Cowie is now part of Aberdeenshire district. Click here for graphs and data of how Aberdeenshire has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Cowie itself, go to Units and Statistics.

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