Catterline

Catterline Harbour, the village was a fishing centre in the 19th century

Catterline is a coastal village on the North Sea in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.^[1] It is situated about six kilometres south of Stonehaven; nearby to the north are Dunnottar Castle and Fowlsheugh Nature Reserve. Other noted architectural or historic features in the general area include Fetteresso Castle, Fiddes Castle, Chapel of St. Mary and St. Nathalan and Muchalls Castle.^[2]

Vicinity prehistory

Prehistoric features in the local area include Bronze Age archaeological recoveries at Fetteresso,^[3] Dunnottar and Spurryhillock.^[2]

Notable inhabitants

The artist Joan Eardley lived in the village in the 1950s up until her death in 1963. Many of her wild seascapes were painted here.

Local Radio

Alongside the commercial enterprise of the local newspaper, The Mearns Leader, Catterline has a Local Community Radio Station in Mearns FM. Broadcasting from nearby Stonehaven in the Townhall, Mearns FM helps to keep Catterline up to date with local and charity events, as well as playing a wee bit of music. Staffed completely by volunteers, Mearns FM is run as a not for profit organisation, broadcasting under a Community Radio licence, with a remit to provide local focus news events and programming. Jointly funded by local adverts and local and national grants. Mearns FM has one of the largest listening areas of any Community Radio Station owing to the Mearns' distributed population, Mearns FM was set up to try to bring these distant communities together.^[4]

References

↑ United Kingdom Ordnance Survey Map Landranger 45, Stonehaven and Banchory, 1:50,000 scale, 2004
1 2 Archibald Watt, Highways and Byways Around Kincardineshire, The Stonehaven Heritage Society (1985)
↑ C. Michael Hogan. 2008. Fetteresso Fieldnotes, The Modern Antiquarian
↑ http://mearnsfm.org.uk/

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Catterline.

Catterline Online Catterline Community Web Site
Catterline, Kinneff and Dunnottar Community Council

Settlements and places of interest in Kincardine and Mearns, Aberdeenshire

Primary settlements	Auchenblae Drumoak Fettercairn Gourdon Inverbervie Johnshaven Laurencekirk Newtonhill Portlethen St Cyrus Stonehaven

Other settlements	Arbuthnott Banchory-Devenick Bridge of Muchalls Cammachmore Catterline Cookney Downies Drumlithie Findon Fordoun Glenbervie Kinneff Kirkton of Durris Maryculter Marykirk Muchalls Netherley Portlethen Village Tewel

Places of interest	Causey Mounth Crawton Drum Castle Dunnottar Castle Fetteresso Castle Fowlsheugh Nature Reserve (Craiglethy) Monboddo House Muchalls Castle Normandykes Portlethen Moss Raedykes Stonehaven Open Air Pool Stonehaven Tolbooth

Areas and primary settlements in Aberdeenshire (see also: Aberdeen City)

in Banff and Buchan	Aberchirder Banff Fraserburgh Gardenstown Inverallochy and Cairnbulg Macduff Portsoy Rosehearty Sandhaven Whitehills

in Buchan	Boddam Crimond Cruden Bay Fetterangus Hatton Longside Maud Mintlaw New Deer New Pitsligo Peterhead St Combs St Fergus Strichen Stuartfield

in Formartine	Balmedie Cuminestown Ellon Fyvie Newburgh Oldmeldrum Pitmedden Potterton Rothienorman Tarves Turriff

in Garioch	Blackburn Insch Inverurie Kemnay Kintore Newmachar Westhill

in Kincardine and Mearns	Drumoak Fettercairn Gourdon Inverbervie Johnshaven Laurencekirk Newtonhill Portlethen St Cyrus Stonehaven

in Marr	Aboyne Alford Ballater Banchory Braemar Huntly Lumphanan Tarland Torphins

Coordinates: 56°53′52″N 2°13′4″W / 56.89778°N 2.21778°W / 56.89778; -2.21778

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