Mearns

But that would require significant expansion of the transmission grid with new, larger pylons - and there has already been significant opposition from communities affected by new pylon routes, including in the Mearns in Aberdeenshire.

He also used some of the money he was given to pay for an "extension and landscaping" at a property in Newton Mearns, East Renfrewshire, which he claimed had been paid for from an inheritance from his father.

He died in 1956 in Newton Mearns, in the south of Glasgow, at the home of his daughter Dr Muriel Swanston.

Sunset Song was written in 1932, the first of three books telling the story of Chris Guthrie, a young woman who lives and works on her family farm in the Mearns, the farming areas south of Aberdeen.

Lewis Grassic Gibbon was the pen name of James Leslie Mitchell, who had been raised in the Mearns.