Stonehaven Tolbooth, Stonehaven

Name: Stonehaven Tolbooth
Address: 3 Old Pier, Stonehaven, AB39 2JU, United Kingdom
Telephone: +44 7512 466329

#3 among attractions in Stonehaven

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The Stonehaven Tolbooth is a late 16th-century stone building originally used as a courthouse and a prison in the town of Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Constructed of local Old Red Sandstone, the prison probably attained its greatest note, when three local Episcopalian clergymen were imprisoned for holding services for more than nine people. Lying midway along the old north quay of the Stonehaven Harbour, the present day Tolbooth serves as a history museum with a restaurant on the floor above the ground floor. It is a category A listed building. ()

Coordinates: 56°57'39"N, 2°12'7"W

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3 Old PierStonehaven AB39 2JU United Kingdom

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+44 7512 466329

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Stonehaven Tolbooth – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Dunnottar Castle, Stonehaven Open Air Pool, Cowie Chapel, Cowie Castle.

1 miS
Ruins of 13th-century clifftop fortress
Dunnottar Castle, Stonehaven
27 min walk • Dunnottar Castle is a dramatic and evocative ruin perched on a giant rocky outcrop on the edge of the North Sea. Located near the coastal town of Stonehaven in Scotland, this fortress holds a place of great significance in the history of Scotland.
0.6 miN
Water park, Amusement park, Sport venue
Stonehaven Open Air Pool, Stonehaven
16 min walk • Stonehaven Open Air Swimming Pool, Queen Elizabeth Park, Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire, is an Olympic sized heated open air public pool opened in 1934. It is the northernmost lido in the UK.
1.2 miN
Ruins
Cowie Chapel, Stonehaven
30 min walk • The Chapel of St. Mary and St. Nathalan is a ruined chapel overlooking the North Sea immediately north of Stonehaven, in the Mearns of Scotland, along the northern shoreline of Stonehaven Bay.
1.1 miN
Forts and castles
Cowie Castle
27 min walk • Cowie Castle is a ruined fortress in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The site lies at the northern end of Stonehaven on the North Sea coast. To the immediate south is the Cowie Bridge crossing of the Cowie Water. Evidence of prehistoric man exists in the vicinity dating to the Iron Age in the form of ring cairns.
1 miW
Church
Dunnottar Parish Church, Stonehaven
25 min walk • Dunnottar Parish Church is a parish church of the Church of Scotland, serving Stonehaven in the south of Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It is within the Church of Scotland's Presbytery of Kincardine and Deeside. During 2020, the congregation united to the South Parish Church in Stonehaven to form Carronside Church of Scotland.
1.2 miN
Church
Chapel of St Mary and St Nathalan
30 min walk • The Chapel of St. Mary and St. Nathalan is a ruined chapel overlooking the North Sea immediately north of Stonehaven, in the Mearns of Scotland, along the northern shoreline of Stonehaven Bay.
0.6 miNW
Bridge
Cowie Bridge, Stonehaven
15 min walk • Cowie Bridge is a roadway bridge which carries the B979 across the mouth of the Cowie Water in Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Historically, the area in the vicinity of the Cowie Bridge site has been an old fishing village known as Cowie Village.