Kincardine and Deeside

This region is rich in prehistory with numerous megalithic sites, notable in the earliest period of recorded history with several significant Roman sites. The region is also traversed by several ancient trackways across the Grampian Mountains, including the Causey Mounth and Elsick Mounth.C.M. Hogan, 2007 In addition there is evidence of ancient burials from the Beaker Period.A. Small, 1988

The district was created on 16 May 1975 under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973, which established a two-tier structure of local government across Scotland comprising upper-tier regions and lower-tier districts. Kincardine and Deeside was one of five districts created within the Grampian region. The district covered most of the historic county of Kincardineshire and part of the neighbouring county of Aberdeenshire. The new district covered the whole area of ten former districts and parts of another two, which were all abolished at the same time:{{cite legislation UK|type=act|act=Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973|year=1973|chapter=65|accessdate=22 November 2022}}{{cite web |title=Quarter-inch Administrative Areas Maps of Scotland, Sheet 5: Aberdeenshire, Banffshire, Kincardineshire, Morayshire and Nairnshire, 1969 |url=https://maps.nls.uk/view/222075470 |website=National Library of Scotland |publisher=Ordnance Survey |access-date=11 August 2024}}

From Aberdeenshire

• Aberdeen district (Drumoak parish only)
• Ballater burgh
• Deeside district

From Kincardineshire

• Banchory burgh
• Inverbervie burgh
• Laurencekirk burgh
• Laurencekirk district
• Lower Deeside district (except the parish of Nigg, which went to the City of Aberdeen{{efn|The parish of Nigg transferred in 1975 only covered the residual rural part of the historic parish of Nigg, principally being the Cove Bay area; the remainder had previously been transferred to the city of Aberdeen in boundary changes in 1891, 1935 and 1970.{{cite web |title=Aberdeen Corporation Act 1891 |url=https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukla/Vict/54-55/124/pdfs/ukla_18910124_en.pdf |website=legislation.gov.uk |publisher=The National Archives |access-date=10 August 2024}}{{cite news |title='Greater Aberdeen' now in being |url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/search-newspapers |access-date=11 August 2024 |work=Aberdeen Press and Journal |date=30 May 1935 |page=8}}{{cite web |title=Aberdeen Extension Order Confirmation Act 1970 |url=https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukla/1970/31/contents/enacted |website=legislation.gov.uk |publisher=The National Archives |access-date=11 August 2024}}}})
• St Cyrus district
• Stonehaven burgh
• Stonehaven district
• Upper Deeside district

The regions and districts created in 1975 were abolished in 1996, being replaced by council areas. The area of Kincardine and Deeside was merged with the Banff and Buchan and Gordon districts to become the new Aberdeenshire council area.{{cite legislation UK|type=act|act=Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994|year=1994|chapter=39|accessdate=16 December 2022}}

The first election to the district council was held in 1974, initially operating as a shadow authority alongside the outgoing authorities until it came into its powers on 16 May 1975. Political control of the council from 1975 until its abolition in 1996 was as follows:{{cite web |title=Compositions calculator |url=https://www.electionscentre.co.uk/?page_id=3825 |website=The Elections Centre |access-date=17 December 2022}}

The council was based at Viewmount on Arduthie Road in Stonehaven.{{London Gazette|issue=23961|page=811|date=29 March 1996}} The building had been the headquarters of Kincardineshire County Council since 1935. It had been built in 1881 as a house, and by the 1920s had been converted to offices. Following a fire in 1932 it was largely rebuilt and extended in order to become the county council's main offices and meeting place, being formally opened as such on 8 May 1935.{{cite news |title=Ideal working conditions for Kincardine's public servants: Home of efficiency and comfort arises from ashes of Viewmount |url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/search-newspapers |access-date=11 August 2024 |work=Mearns Leader |date=9 May 1935 |location=Stonehaven |page=12}}{{Historic Environment Scotland|num= LB50245|desc=Arduthie Road, Viewmount, Council Offices including nuclear bunker, ancillary building, boundary walls, gatepiers and railings |access-date=11 August 2024}}

After the council's abolition in 1996, Viewmount became an area office for the successor Aberdeenshire Council.{{cite web |title=Area manager teams |url=https://www.aberdeenshire.gov.uk/contact-us/area-offices |website=Aberdeenshire Council |access-date=11 August 2024}}

• Dunnottar Castle
• Fowlsheugh Nature Reserve
• Muchalls Castle
• Portlethen Moss

• Subdivisions of Scotland

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• [http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=18037 C. Michael Hogan (2007) Elsick Mounth, The Megalithic Portal, ed A. Burnham]
• A. Small, Margaret Bruce and Ian A.G. Shepherd (1988) A Beaker Child Burial from Catterline, Kincardine and Deeside, Proc. Soc. Antiquaries Scotland 118: 71-77

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