Forfar

Forfar is the county town of , 13 miles north of Dundee, with a population in 2022 of 15,700. Its main attractions are Glamis Castle, and the fine Pictish stones here and at Meigle and Aberlemno.
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  • Type: Town with 13,800 residents
  • Description: town in Angus, Scotland, UK
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Station Park and Meffan Institute.

Stadium
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is a football ground in Forfar, . It is home to Scottish Professional Football League side Forfar Athletic and to Forfar Farmington of the Scottish Women's Premier League.

Museum
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The is a museum and art gallery in Forfar, . 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.

Lake
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is a freshwater loch lying on the western side of the town of Forfar, . 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.

Village
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is a small village in , Scotland, one mile south-east of Forfar on the B9128 to Forfar road.

Village
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is a small village in , situated between and Forfar. It is close to Hill, at which the Battle of Dun Nechtain is popularly believed to have been fought. is situated 3½ miles east of Forfar.

Village
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is a hamlet in Kinnettles in , 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to build a flax mill to spin yarn for heavy linen cloth called osnaburgs (named from the German town of , where it was originally made. is situated 3 miles southwest of Forfar.

Forfar

Latitude
56.6443° or 56° 38′ 40″ north
Longitude
-2.8882° or 2° 53′ 18″ west
Population
13,800
Elevation
207 feet (63 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB FOF
Open location code
9C8VJ4V6+PP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 387099673
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2649207
Wiki­data ID
Q996509
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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”
  • Breton: “Farfar”
  • 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”
  • Latvian: “Forfara”
  • Lithuanian: “Forfaras”
  • Manx: “Farfar”
  • 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: “Farfar”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Forfar”
  • Slovenian: “Forfar”
  • Spanish: “Forfar”
  • Swedish: “Forfar”
  • Tamil: “போர்பார்”
  • Telugu: “ఫోర్పార్”
  • Ukrainian: “Форфар”
  • Urdu: “فورفار”
  • Welsh: “Farfar”
  • Welsh: “Forfar”
  • Yue Chinese: “科發”
  • “Farfar”
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