Forfar
Forfar is the county town of Angus, 13 miles north of Dundee. It had a linen and jute industry in the 18th and 19th centuries but those have gone, so Forfar is now a commuter town for Dundee, with a population in 2020 of 14,000.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: LeCardinal, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Station Park and Meffan Institute.
Station Park
Stadium
Photo: Alan Edwards, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Station Park is a football ground in Forfar, Angus, Scotland. It is home to Scottish Professional Football League side Forfar Athletic and to Forfar Farmington of the Scottish Women's Premier League.
Meffan Institute
Museum
Photo: Ewen Rennie, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Meffan Institute is a museum and art gallery in Forfar, Angus. Opened in 1898, it houses a variety of exhibits of local interest in Angus, including a collection of Pictish stones, particularly the Dunnichen Stone and the Kirriemuir Sculptured Stones as well as Roman and Medieval artefacts found in the local area.
Loch of Forfar
Lake
Photo: Karen Vernon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Loch of Forfar is a freshwater loch lying on the western side of the town of Forfar, Scotland. The loch trends in an east to west direction and is approximately 1 mi in length.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kingsmuir and Dunnichen.
Kingsmuir
Village
Photo: Alan Morrison, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Kingsmuir is a small village in Angus, Scotland, one mile south-east of Forfar on the B9128 Carnoustie to Forfar road.
Dunnichen
Village
Photo: Alan Morrison, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Dunnichen is a small village in Angus, Scotland, situated between Letham and Forfar. It is close to Dunnichen Hill, at which the Battle of Dun Nechtain is popularly believed to have been fought. Dunnichen is situated 3½ miles east of Forfar.
Douglastown
Village
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Douglastown is a hamlet in Kinnettles in Angus, Scotland, three miles south-west of Forfar. It takes its name from the landowner who in about 1789 provided land for James Ivory & Co. to build a flax mill to spin yarn for heavy linen cloth called osnaburgs (named from the German town of Osnabrück, where it was originally made. Douglastown is situated 3 miles southwest of Forfar.
Forfar
- Categories: small burgh and locality
- Location: Angus, North East Scotland, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
56.6443° or 56° 38′ 40″ northLongitude
-2.8882° or 2° 53′ 18″ westPopulation
13,800Elevation
207 feet (63 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB FOFOpen location code
9C8VJ4V6+PPOpenStreetMap ID
node 387099673OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Forfar” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “فورفار”
- Asturian: “Forfar”
- Azerbaijani: “Forfar”
- Basque: “Forfar”
- Belarusian: “Форфар”
- Bengali: “ফোরফার”
- Breton: “Baile Fharfair”
- Bulgarian: “Форфар”
- Catalan: “Forfar”
- Cebuano: “Forfar”
- Chinese: “佛尔法尔”
- Chinese: “佛爾法爾”
- Chinese: “弗福爾”
- Chinese: “福弗爾”
- Chinese: “科發”
- Czech: “Forfar”
- Danish: “Forfar”
- Dutch: “Forfar”
- Esperanto: “Forfar”
- French: “Forfar”
- German: “Forfar”
- Greek: “Φόρφαρ”
- Gujarati: “ફોરફાર”
- Hebrew: “פורפאר”
- Irish: “Baile Fharfair”
- Irish: “Farfar”
- Italian: “Forfar”
- Japanese: “フォーファー”
- Kannada: “ಫೋರ್ಫರ್”
- Korean: “포퍼”
- Lithuanian: “Forfaras”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Forfar”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Forfar”
- Norwegian: “Forfar”
- Persian: “فورفار”
- Polish: “Forfar”
- Portuguese: “Forfar”
- Russian: “Форфар”
- Scots: “Farfar”
- Scots: “Forfar”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Baile Fharfair”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Farfair”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Fharfair”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Forfar”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Forfar”
- Slovenian: “Forfar”
- Spanish: “Forfar”
- Swedish: “Forfar”
- Tamil: “போர்பார்”
- Telugu: “ఫోర్పార్”
- Ukrainian: “Форфар”
- Urdu: “فورفار”
- Welsh: “Forfar”
- Yue Chinese: “科發”
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