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Founding. Prior to the Reformation, the land on which the town stands, together with a sizeable amount of adjoining country, belonged to Deer Abbey. In 1560, when it was known as Peterugie, or Inverugie of St Peter, [8] it was granted by Mary, Queen of Scots, to Robert Keith, 1st Lord Altrie and son of William Keith, 4th Earl Marischal. [8] .
- 19,060 (mid-2020 est.)
- Scotland
- PETERHEAD
- Banff and Buchan
Peterhead, town and fishing port, council area and historic county of Aberdeenshire. Peterhead is the most easterly town in Scotland. Founded in 1593, it developed as a port and functioned briefly as a fashionable 18th-century spa. By the early 19th century it had become the chief British whaling.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Peterhead is the centre of one of the 26 herring fishery districts of Scotland, and during the season of the herring fishing the pop. of the town is increased by from 3000 to 4000. Immense quantities of herrings are exported, chiefly to Baltic ports.
6 de oct. de 2023 · History. PETERHEAD, a burgh of barony, sea-port, and parish, in the district of Buchan, county of Aberdeen; containing the villages of Boddam and Burnhaven, and the late quoad sacra district of East Peterhead, 32 miles (N. N. E.) from Aberdeen, and 145 (N. E. by N.) from Edinburgh.
1 de abr. de 2021 · The Plague came to town of Peterhead in 1645, it allegedly arrived in the town via a trunk of clothing that was sent to a maid servant working in the town. Old Peterhead history. Such was the fear of the plague that the sick and dying were transported to wooden huts, then outside of town, and left to die.
- Peterhead, Aberdeenshire
The Statistical Account of 1845 and Imperial Gazetteer of Scotland (1857) both make the point that manufacturing in mid-nineteenth century Peterhead was very limited. The town contained a brewery, a brickworks, a dyeworks, a gas works, and a carding and spinning mill, and sea-kelp was gathered to be processed into manure and cattle-feed.
The town was founded by George Keith, the 5th Earl Marischal and his brother Robert from 1587. At the time the total population numbered around 50, most of whom lived in a fishing village on the island of Keith Inch, which today forms the easternmost part of the town, beyond the harbours.