Arbroath
Arbroath is a small fishing port in Angus in north-east Scotland, 16 miles from Dundee, and with a population of 23,500 in 2022. It's best known for its red sandstone abbey, its local fish specialty "Arbroath Smokies", and as the scene in 1320 of Scotland's first documented assertion of independence, the Declaration of Arbroath.Photo: Heligoland, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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- Type: Town with 23,500 residents
- Description: town in Angus, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Aberbrothock”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Arbroath Abbey and Gayfield Park.
Arbroath Abbey
Photo: Bubobubo2, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Arbroath Abbey, in the Scottish town of Arbroath, was founded in 1178 by King William the Lion for a group of Tironensian Benedictine monks from Kelso Abbey.
Gayfield Park
Stadium
Photo: Colin Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Gayfield Park, commonly known as Gayfield, is a football stadium in Arbroath, Angus, Scotland. It is the home ground of Scottish Professional Football League team Arbroath F.C.
Arbroath railway station
Railway station
Photo: Peter Moore, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Arbroath railway station serves the town of Arbroath in Angus, Scotland. The station is 17 miles east of Dundee on the line between Dundee and Aberdeen, between Carnoustie and Montrose.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Arbirlot and St Vigeans.
Arbirlot
Village
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Arbirlot is a village in a rural parish of the same name in Angus, Scotland. The current name is usually presumed to be a contraction of Aberelliot or Aber-Eliot, both meaning the mouth of the Elliot. Arbirlot is situated 2½ miles west of Arbroath.
St Vigeans
Village
Photo: Alan Morrison, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Vigeans is a small village and parish in Angus, Scotland, immediately to the north of Arbroath. Originally rural, it is now more or less a suburb of the town of Arbroath.
Elliot
Hamlet
Photo: Derek Robertson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Elliot is a coastal hamlet in the county of Angus, Scotland, on the westernmost edge of Arbroath on the A92 road. The Elliot Water reaches the North Sea at Elliot.
Arbroath
- Categories: large burgh and locality
- Location: Angus, North East Scotland, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
56.5587° or 56° 33′ 31″ northLongitude
-2.5816° or 2° 34′ 54″ westPopulation
23,500Elevation
33 feet (10 metres)Inception
1174United Nations Location Code
GB ARBOpen location code
9C8VHC59+F9OpenStreetMap ID
node 5305193765OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
2657215Wikidata ID
Q630668
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Frisian—“Arbroath” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أربروث”
- Asturian: “Arbroath”
- Basque: “Arbroath”
- Bengali: “আরব্রোথ”
- Breton: “Obar Bhrothaig”
- Bulgarian: “Арброут”
- Catalan: “Arbroath”
- Cebuano: “Arbroath”
- Chinese: “安格斯”
- Chinese: “阿布洛斯”
- Chinese: “阿布羅斯”
- Chinese: “阿布莱阿斯”
- Chinese: “阿布萊阿斯”
- Czech: “Arbroath”
- Danish: “Arbroath”
- Dutch: “Arbroath”
- French: “Arbroath”
- Galician: “Arbroath - Aiberbrothock - Obair Bhrothaig”
- Galician: “Arbroath”
- German: “Arbroath”
- Gujarati: “આર્બ્રોથ”
- Hebrew: “ארברואת‘”
- Indonesian: “Arbroath”
- Irish: “Obar Bhrothaig”
- Italian: “Arbroath”
- Japanese: “アーブロース”
- Japanese: “アルブロース”
- Kannada: “ಅರ್ಬ್ರೊತ್”
- Korean: “아르브로스”
- Latvian: “Ārbrota”
- Lithuanian: “Arbrotas”
- Manx: “Obar Bhrothaig”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Arbroath”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Arbroath”
- Norwegian: “Arbroath”
- Persian: “آربروث”
- Polish: “Arbroath”
- Portuguese: “Arbroath”
- Russian: “Абербротвик”
- Russian: “Арброт”
- Scots: “Aiberbrothock”
- Scots: “Arbroath”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Arbroath”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Obar Bhrothaig”
- Slovak: “Arbroath”
- South Azerbaijani: “آربروث”
- Spanish: “Aberbrothock”
- Spanish: “Arbroath”
- Spanish: “Obair Bhrothaig”
- Swedish: “Aberbrothock”
- Swedish: “Arbroath”
- Tamil: “அரப்ரோத்”
- Telugu: “అర్బ్రోత్”
- Ukrainian: “Аберброток”
- Ukrainian: “Арброт”
- Urdu: “اربرواتھ”
- Welsh: “Arbroath”
- Welsh: “Obar Bhrothaig”
- Western Frisian: “Arbroath”
- “Arbroath”
- “Obar Bhrothaig”
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