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Inverbervie
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In 1341
King David 11and his consort Johanna made a forced landing on his return from nine years in exile in France, his ship having been driven ashore in a storm after escaping from the English fleet, The
King's Step a nearby rock said to be the actual spot where the King set foot on Scotland. Inverbervie’s royal charter was granted by King David in appreciation of the
loyalty and hospitality he received on his landing a later charter was granted by James VI in 1595.
There was a Carmelite monastery at friar's dubh near the old Bervie bridge in ancient times but the town's
only visible link with the past is market cross a stone pillar 14ft high with a ball on top dated 1773 The town unlike most coastal burgh
which supported the Jacobites was spared by the Duke of Cumberland in his post Culloden rampage because the parish minister diplomatically entertained the butcher at his manse and dissuaded him
from his usual death and destruction.
The main feature of the town is the church steeple built in 1863, the bell coming from the former parish church at kirkburn. In October
1969 the late sir Francis Chichester was the first to single handed circumnavigator of the globe he unveiled a striking figure head memorial to Hercules Linton, designer of the famous tea clipper the
cutty sark who was born in Inverbervie.
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