Brechin
Brechin is a town and former royal burgh in Angus, Scotland. Traditionally Brechin was described as a city because of its cathedral and its status as the seat of a pre-Reformation Roman Catholic diocese, but that status has not been officially recognised in the modern era.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Anne Burgess, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Brechin Cathedral and Brechin Castle.
Brechin Cathedral
Church
Photo: Otter, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Brechin Cathedral is a Scottish Church building which dates from the 13th century. It is the former Cathedral of the former Roman Catholic Diocese of Brechin but has not served that function since the Scottish Reformation in the 16th century.
Brechin Castle
Photo: Kylemunro1, Public domain.
Brechin Castle is a castle in Brechin, Angus, Scotland. The castle was constructed in stone during the 13th century. Most of the current building dates to the early 18th century, when extensive reconstruction was carried out by architect Alexander Edward for James Maule, 4th Earl of Panmure, between approximately 1696 and 1709.
Glebe Park
Stadium
Photo: Richard Webb, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Glebe Park is a football stadium in Brechin, Scotland, which is the home ground of Brechin City. Glebe Park opened in 1919. The ground had just one portable stand, which had been used at the Perth agricultural show.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Unthank and Trinity.
Unthank
Hamlet
Photo: Alan Morrison, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Unthank is a hamlet in Angus, Scotland. It lies approximately half a mile north-west of Brechin on the B966 Brechin to Edzell road. It used to be a possession of the Barony of Spynie.
Trinity
Village
Photo: Alan Morrison, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Trinity is a village in Angus, Scotland. It lies approximately one mile north-west of Brechin on the B966 Brechin to Edzell road. It was the location of the toll house to the Strathmore turnpike, operating from 1794 to 1879.
Little Brechin
Village
Photo: Trish Steel, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Little Brechin is a village in Angus, Scotland. It lies approximately two miles north of Brechin on the north side of the A90 road. Little Brechin is situated 2 miles northwest of Brechin.
Brechin
- Type: Town with 7,190 residents
- Description: city and former royal burgh in Angus, Scotland, UK
- Categories: small burgh and locality
- Location: Angus, North East Scotland, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
56.73152° or 56° 43′ 54″ northLongitude
-2.66002° or 2° 39′ 36″ westPopulation
7,190Elevation
131 feet (40 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB BRCOpen location code
9C8VP8JQ+JXOpenStreetMap ID
node 5312776000OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Brechin” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Brechin”
- Basque: “Brechin”
- Bengali: “ব্রেচিন”
- Breton: “Breichinn”
- Bulgarian: “Брихин”
- Catalan: “Brechin”
- Cebuano: “Brechin”
- Chinese: “伯莱钦”
- Chinese: “伯萊坎”
- Chinese: “布里金”
- Dutch: “Brechin”
- French: “Brechin”
- German: “Brechin”
- Gujarati: “બ્રેચિન”
- Hebrew: “ברצ’ין”
- Irish: “Breichin”
- Irish: “Breichinn”
- Italian: “Brechin”
- Japanese: “ブリーシン”
- Japanese: “ブレチン”
- Japanese: “ブレッキン”
- Japanese: “ブレッチン”
- Kannada: “ಬ್ರೆಚಿನ್”
- Korean: “브레친”
- Lithuanian: “Brichinas”
- Macedonian: “Брихин”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Brechin”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Brechin”
- Norwegian: “Brechin”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Brechin”
- Persian: “برچین”
- Polish: “Brechin”
- Portuguese: “Brechin”
- Russian: “Брехин”
- Russian: “Брикин”
- Russian: “Брихин”
- Scots: “Brechin”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Brechinn”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Breichin”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Breichinn”
- Slovenian: “Brechin”
- Spanish: “Brechin”
- Swedish: “Brechin”
- Tamil: “பிரேசின்”
- Telugu: “బ్రెషిన్”
- Urdu: “بریچین”
- Welsh: “Brechin”
- “Brechin”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Brechin”. Photo: Anne Burgess, CC BY-SA 2.0.