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<p><b>Economic and social profile</b>:</p><p>Also known as The Mearns, Kincardineshire was a maritime county containing the eastern extreme of the Grampians, ‘forming the end of the great valley of Strathmore’. Comprising almost a quarter of a million acres, half of which were uncultivated, the county was mostly agricultural, but fishing was important for its coastal communities.<fn><em>Dod’s electoral facts, 1832-53, impartially stated</em>, ed. H.J.

<p><b>Economic and social profile</b>:</p><p>Elgin District (or Burghs) contained the county towns of Elgin and Banff, both situated south of the Moray Firth; Peterhead, further south and east on the Aberdeenshire coast; and Kintore and Inverury, which were inland burghs. It also included Cullen, in Elginshire, which consisted of ‘little more than a street’ and was ‘so unimportant’ that the earls of Seafield relocated the whole burgh in 1820 it when it encroached on their residence.<fn>PP 1835 [30], xxix.