Places to visit

Ardestie Earth House

Ardestie Earth House image courtesy of Visit Angus

Ardestie Earthhouse is located west along the A92 north northwest from Carnoustie and off the B962 east of Dundee.

St Vigeans Museum

St Vigeans Sculptured Stone Museum image courtesy of Visit Scotland.

St Vigeans Sculptured Stones Museum is located in the village of St Vigeans, just to the north of Arbroath  Angus, Scotland (Scottish Gaelic: Obar Bhrothaig, Aonghas, Alba). This museum houses an outstanding collection of  some 38 Pictish stones found in St Vigeans. The carved stones were found in and around the village church. There was an important religious monastery founded here in the 8th century. The present-day St Vigeans Church was built in the 12th century, on a 40-foot mound. The name St Vigeans is derived from Vigeanus, a Latinised form of the Old Irish name Féichín. Saint Feichin was a 7th century Irish Saint who died in 665 AD.

Arbroath Abbey

Arbroath Abbey image courtesy of BBC Scotland

Arbroath Abbey is located in Abbey Street, Arbroath, Angus, Scotland (Scottish Gaelic: Obar Bhrothaig, Aonghas, Alba). This is an abbey founded in 1178 by King William the Lion. William the Lion (Gaelic: Uilleam mac Eanraig c. 1142 – 4 December 1214) reigned as King of Scots from 1165 until his death in to 1214 after which he was buried in front of the abbey’s high altar. The abbey is famously associated with the 1320 Declaration of Scottish Independence.

Arbroath Signal Tower Museum

Arbroath Signal Tower © Copyright Aaron Bell and licensed for reuse under Creative Commons Licence

The Signal Tower is a museum beside the harbour in the coastal town of Arbroath, Angus, Scotland (Scottish Gaelic: Obar Bhrothaig, Aonghas, Alba). The museum is housed in the former shore station living quarters for the keepers on Bell Rock Lighthouse which is about eleven and half miles off-shore. The museum gives a history of the Lighthouse and the lives of the keepers and their families as well as telling the story of Arbroath's fishing heritage.

Red Castle

Red Castle Lunan Bay image courtesy of Visit Angus

Red Castle of Lunan is a ruined fortified house. It is located close to the village of Lunan about 4 miles south-southwest of the town of Montrose (Scottish Gaelic: Monadh Rois) and overlooks Lunan Bay on the coast of Angus, Scotland (Scottish Gaelic: Aonghas, Alba). There was an earlier twelfth century fortress on this site, however, the present red sandstone ruins of Red Castle date largely from the 15th century. Only a part of the fifteenth century rectangular tower, and the 6.6 feet thick east curtain wall remain. 

Montrose - Monadh Rois

Montrose Gazeteer of Scotland 1838

Montrose (Scottish Gaelic: Monadh Rois) is a town and former royal burgh in Angus, Scotland (Scottish Gaelic: Aonghas, Alba). This is a coastal port to the east of Brechin and is next to Montrose Basin which is a large inland salt water basin and important nature reserve. The area of Montrose has a number of sites of pre-historic interest including the Stone of Morphie standing stone to the north from the town. The town itself is on the site of an earlier Norse settlement. Within the town is the Museum of Montrose in Panmure Place. It contains the Pictish carved Inchbrayock Stone dating from 850-950AD as well as other Pictish stones and items from the Neolithic and Bronze ages.

Stone of Morphie

Stone of Morphie © Copyright Anne Burgess and licensed for reuse under Creative Commons Licence.

The Stone of Morphie is a prehistoric standing stone about ten feet in height. It is located about half a mile west of the Coast Highway (A92 road) and a bridge over the River North Esk (Scottish Gaelic: Easg Thuath) and about 500 yards east of the historic Mill of Morphie in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. This standing stone is traditionally said to mark the site of the burial of a son of Camus, a Danish warrior, said to have been killed in a battle with the Scots the early eleventh century AD. 

Brechin Town House Museum

Brechin Town House Museum image courtesy of VisitScotland.

Brechin Town House Museum is located at 28 High Street in the centre of the town of Brechin, Angus, Scotland (Scottish Gaelic: Breichinn, Aonghas, Alba). Amongst other historical items the museum also displays an eighteenth century Highland Bagpipes, a Jacobite Sporran owned by David Mitchell of Lethnot who was a sergeant in the rebel army and it was probably worn at Culloden and a Jet Necklace dated to about 1800 BC found in a cist in Mains of Melgund. The museum is open 10am-5pm Monday to Saturday.

Edzell Castle

Edzell Castle © Copyright Anne Burgess and licensed for reuse under Creative Commons Licence.

Edzell Castle is a ruined 16th-century castle, with an early-17th-century walled garden. It is located close to the village of  Edzell, Angus, Scotland (Scottish Gaelic:  Eigill, Aonghas, Alba) which is about 5 miles north of Brechin. The castle did not endure much military action, and seems to have been designed for use as primarily a country house. In 1715 it was sold by the Lindsay family, and eventually came into the ownership of the Earl of Dalhousie. The house was given to the state in the 1930s, and is now under the care of by Historic Environment Scotland - Àrainneachd Eachdraidheil Alba and open to the public.

Lochleven Castle

Lochleven Castle. Engraving by William Millar after G. F. Sargent. Published in The Castles, Palaces and Prisons of Mary of Scotland. Charles Mackie. London. Painted 1831, published 1850.

Lochleven Castle is located on an island on the west of Loch Leven (Scottish Gaelic: Loch Liobhann) which is a fresh water loch in Perth and Kinross, Scotland (Scottish Gaelic: Peairt agus Ceann Rois, Alba). Parts of the remains of the castle date back to the thirteenth century with the square keep dating from the sixteenth century. It was the place of imprisonment for Mary Queen of Scots between 1567 and 1568. The castle is open to the public daily from the 1st April -31st October and reached by ferry from Kinross/Ceann Rois.

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