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Angus
Angus (Aonghas in Gaelic) is one of the 32 local government council areas of Scotland, and a lieutenancy area. The council area borders onto Aberdeenshire, Perth and Kinross and Dundee City. Main industries include agriculture and fishing.
Angus was historically a county (known officially as...
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Arbroath
Arbroath or Aberbrothock (Scottish Gaelic: Obair Bhrothaig) is a former royal burgh and the largest town in the council area of Angus in Scotland, and has a population of 22,785. It lies on the North Sea coast, around 16 miles (25.7 km) ENE of...
Forfar
Forfar (Scottish Gaelic: Baile Fharfair) is a town and former royal burgh of approximately 13,500 people, located in the unitary authority of Angus in Scotland. It is the administrative centre of Angus and was the capital of the former county of...
Montrose
Montrose is a coastal resort town and royal burgh in Angus, Scotland. It is situated 38 miles (61 km) north east of Dundee between the mouths of the North and South Esk rivers. It is the northernmost coastal town in Angus and developed at a natural...
Kirriemuir
Kirriemuir, sometimes called Kirrie, is a burgh in Angus, Scotland. Though its importance as a market town has diminished, its former jute factories (now manufacturing synthetics) echo its past importance in the 19th century as the centre of a home...
Brechin
Brechin is a former royal burgh in Angus, Scotland. Traditionally Brechin is often described as a city because of its cathedral and its status as the seat of a pre-Reformation Roman Catholic diocese (which continues today as an episcopal seat of the...
Friockheim
Friockheim is a village in Angus, Scotland dating from 1814.
Situated within a parallelogram formed by the Angus burghs of Brechin, Montrose, Arbroath and Forfar is the village of Friockheim.
Its name, literally translated, means 'Heather Home',...
Carnoustie
Carnoustie (pronounced /kærnuːsti/) is a town and former police burgh in the council area of Angus, Scotland. It is situated at the mouth of the Barry Burn on the North Sea coast. In the 2001 census, Carnoustie had a population of 10,561, making it...
Glamis
Glamis (pronounced Glawmz) is a small village in Angus, Scotland, located four miles south of Kirriemuir and five miles southwest of Forfar. It is the location of Glamis Castle, the childhood home of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother.
Glamis houses...
Aberlemno
Aberlemno (Gaelic: Obar Leamhnach) is a parish and small village in the Scottish council area of Angus. It is noted for three large carved Pictish stones (and one fragment) dating from the 7th and 8th centuries AD (Historic Scotland); the stones can...
Monifieth
Monifieth (pronounced /mɒnifiθ/) is a town and former police burgh in the council area of Angus, Scotland. It is situated on the North side of the Firth of Tay on the East Coast.
As a settlement, the town dates as far back as Pictish times, and...
Tealing
Tealing is a village in Angus in eastern Scotland, nestled at the foot of the Sidlaw Hills. It is just 6 miles (9.7 km) north of the city of Dundee and 8 miles (13 km) south of Forfar. With a population of just over 500, scattered across 15 square...
Auchmithie
Auchmithie is a former fishing village in Angus, Scotland, three miles north east of the town of Arbroath. It sits atop a red sandstone cliff, approximately 120 feet above a shingle beach which contains an unusual amount of jasper.
In the...
Bridge of Craigisla
Bridge of Craigisla is a hamlet in Angus, Scotland. The bridge crosses the River Isla. This settlement lies along the B954 road.
Carmyllie
Carmyllie (Gaelic: Càrn Mhoillidh) is a rural parish in Angus, Scotland. It is situated on high ground between Arbroath, on the coast, and the inland county town of Forfar. The main settlements in the parish are Redford, Greystone and Milton of...
Edzell
Edzell is a village in Angus, Scotland. It is located 5 miles (8 km) north of Brechin, by the River North Esk. Edzell is a Georgian-era planned town, with a broad main street and a grid system of side streets. Originally called Slateford, Edzell was...
Farnell
Farnell, Angus is a village in Angus, Scotland.
Guthrie
Guthrie is a village in Angus, Scotland. The principal building in the village is Guthrie Castle, which has its own public golf course and is a popular venue for events such as markets, parties and weddings.
Inverkeilor
Inverkeilor is a village and parish in Angus, Scotland. It lies near the North Sea coast, midway between Arbroath and Montrose. The A92 road now bypasses the village.
The population of Inverkeilor parish in the United Kingdom Census 2001 was 972, up...
Letham
Letham is a village in Angus, Scotland.
Letham is the largest village in Angus, with a population of nearly 2000. Situated 17 miles from Dundee, 5 miles from Forfar, 10 miles from Arbroath and 10 miles from Carnoustie.
There are some shops,...
Newbigging
Newbigging, Angus is a village in Angus, Scotland. The name "Newbigging" originally referred to a "new bigging" or "new cottar town" (hamlet). The village is roughly two miles north of Monifieth and east of Dundee, Scotland's fourth City. Some of...
St Vigeans
St Vigeans is a small village and parish in Angus, Scotland. Originally rural, it is now more or less a suburb of the town of Arbroath. The name St Vigeans is derived from Vigeanus, a Latinised form of the Old Irish name Féichín. Saint Feichin...
Arbirlot
Arbirlot (Gaelic: Obar Eilid) is a village in a rural parish of the same name in Angus, Scotland. The current name is a contraction of Aberelliot - mouth of the Elliot. It is situated west of Arbroath. The main village settlement is on the Elliot...
Menmuir
Menmuir is a parish in Angus (formerly Forfarshire) in Scotland. Kirkton of Menmuir consists of only three houses (The old Schoolhouse, The Manse, The old Inn) but around 250 people live in the area and the community hall is well used.
Neolithic cup...
Backwater Reservoir
Backwater Reservoir is a reservoir in north west Angus, Scotland.
The project was initiated by the Dundee Corporation Waterworks in 1964 and absorbed into the newly created East of Scotland Water Board in 1968, before final completion and the...
Loch Lee
Loch Lee is a loch in Angus, Scotland south of the Grampian Mountains that flows into the river North Esk. Queen Victoria described it as "a wild but not large lake, closed in by mountains, with a farm-house and a few cottages at its edge".
The area...
