The Third Statistical Account of Scotland - The County of Kincardine

There have been Three commissioned “ Statistical Accounts” relating to Scotland in the previous three centuries:

First (Old) Statistical Account - published 1791–1799. 
Second (New) Statistical Account: Published 1834–1845
Third Statistical Account: Published from 1951–1992

In the words of the original commissioner of the first Statistical accounts Sir john Sinclair wrote: "by statistical is meant...an enquiry into the state of a country for the purpose of ascertaining the quantum of happiness enjoyed by its inhabitants and the means of its future improvement".

This is Volume XXIX and relates to the County of Kincardine (also known as Kincardineshire). The County lies on the East Coast of Scotland between Montrose and Aberdeen and inland is dominated by the agricultural plains known as the "Mearns" made famous by Lewis Grassic Gibbon's classic trilogy  "A Scots Quair". Agriculture has always been dominant in the Kincardineshire economy although fishing was important in the second half of the 19th century. With the arrival of new improved communications notably in roads due to the arrival of the North Sea oil boom and this Third account takes the changes into account.

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