Hello, thank you for visiting my site. Mearns.org.uk was first registered when to do so was free, back in the days before Nominet and web any formal regulation. On this site I have information related to the North of Scotland, as well including personel interests.
Please have a look around, the history section is pretty popular, and now (December 2008) that I am back in the UK after living overseas for nearly 8 years, I look forward to being more proactive in the web update, additions and maintenance. I have links to Stonehaven and the mearns villages and, since moving here in July 2007,the village of Torphins and surounding area.

Torphins is a very pleasant village in Royal Deeside, Aberdeenshire, Scotland and lies on the Beltie Burn. With a population of about 2000 it is one of the larger villages in Deeside, but still with a pleasant quite country air and well served for travel to and from Aberdeen, Aboyne or Banchory. The Learney Arms is set in the centre of the village, the independent Platform 22 cafe - gallery is close by, and Torphins has it's own Town Hall.The village has many other facilities including a primary school, large park with play area, pleasant 9 hole golf course, tennis courts, a bowling green, a curling rink, a doctors surgery and a variety of shops including a superb butcher, a baker, a hairdressers, a furniture maker, a Co-operative grocer, chemist and a car dealership. There is a Church of Scotland, which is part of the Mid Deeside United Churches with Kincardine O'Neil and Lumphanan.

Torphins is about 20 miles by the A980 road west of Aberdeen on what was once the 19th Century Great North of Scotland railway, set in a pleasant valley and was home to a War Memorial Maternity Hospital, and as a result, many notable people from Deeside have been born in Torphins. The building however has recently become a GP clinic, and no longer offers maternity facilities.