Rosehearty is a settlement on the Moray Firth coast, four miles west of the town Fraserburgh, in the historical county of Aberdeenshire in Scotland.The burgh has a population of approximately 1,300 with about 25 per cent of pensionable age. There is one shop, a butcher, a hairdresser and three hotels in the village.A new modern Rosehearty Primary School was built in 2007 and accommodates seven classrooms, an ICT computer suite and a games hall with retractable theatre seating and complementary acoustics and lighting. The school caters for approximately 140-160 pupils in total.The settlement which is now Rosehearty was founded by a group of shipwrecked Danes in the 14th century. In 1424 the Fraser family built Pitsligo Castle a few hundred yards inland; the castle was enlarged by the Forbes family in 1570. The remains of the Castle are visible from Rosehearty.Rosehearty didn't officially exist until it was granted a charter in the 1680s by King Charles II.Notable peopleRosehearty is the birthplace of:  Hugh Mercer (1726 - 1777) British/American soldier and physician Sir Walter Murdoch (1874 - 1970), Australian essayist and academic Lawrence Ogilvie (1898 - 1980), plant pathologist