Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
DIRECTORY
Internet
At the Central Library.
Library
The Central Library
,
third floor of the Wellgate
Shopping
Boots
pharmacy, 49-53 High St (Mon-Sat 8.30am-6pm,
Thurs 8.30am-7.30pm, Sun 10.30am-5pm;
T
01382
221756).
Police
Scotland's Tayside division is based at West Bell St
(
T
01382 223200 or
T
101).
Post o
ce
4
Meadowside (Mon-Fri 9am-5.30pm, Sat
9am-12.30pm).
Centre
(Mon-Fri
9/10am-6pm,
Sat
9.30am-5pm).
Medical facilities
Ninewells Hospital (
T
01382 660111)
is in the west of the city and has an Accident and Emergency
department; Dundee Dental Hospital (
T
01382 425791);
10
The Angus coast
he predominantly agricultural county of
ANGUS
, east of the A9 and north of the Firth
of Tay, holds some of the northeast's greatest scenery and is relatively free of tourists. he
coast from
Montrose
to
Arbroath
is especially inviting, with scarlet cliffs and sweeping
bays, then, further south towards Dundee, gentler dunes and long sandy beaches.
GETTING AROUND
THE ANGUS COAST
By car
Two roads link Dundee to Aberdeen and the
northeast coast of Scotland. By far the more pleasant
option is the slightly longer A92 coast road, which joins the
inland A90 at Stonehaven, just south of Aberdeen.
By bus
Intercity buses from Dundee to Aberdeen tend to
use the A90, passing Forfar on the way.
By train
The coast-hugging train line running north from
Dundee is one of the most picturesque in Scotland, passing
attractive beaches and impressive cliffs, and stopping in
the old seaports of Arbroath and Montrose.
Arbroath and around
Since it was settled in the twelfth century, local fishermen have been landing their
catches at
ARBROATH
, situated on the Angus coast where it starts to curve in from the
North Sea towards the Firth of Tay, about fifteen miles northeast of Dundee. he name
of the town stems from Aber Brothock, the burn which runs into the sea here, and
although it has a great location, with long sandy beaches and stunning sandstone cliffs
on either side of town, as well as an attractive old working harbour, Arbroath - like
Dundee - has suffered from short-sighted development.
he town's most famous product is the
Arbroath smokie
- line-caught haddock,
smoke-cured over smouldering oak chips, and still made here in a number of family-
run smokehouses tucked in around the harbour.
Signal House Museum
Ladyloan, just west of the dock • Tues-Sat 10am-5pm • Free
Down by the harbour, the elegant Regency
Signal House Museum
still stands sentinel,
as it has since 1813 when it was built as the shore station for the Bell Rock lighthouse,
improbably erected on a reef eleven miles offshore by Robert Stevenson. he interior is
now given over to some excellent local history displays: a schoolroom, fisherman's
cottage and lighthouse kitchen have all been carefully re-created.
Arbroath Abbey
Abbey Street, half a mile north of the dock • Daily: April-Sept 9.30am-5.30pm; Oct-March 9.30am-4.30pm • £5.50 •
T
01241 878756,
W
www.historic-scotland.gov.uk
By the late eighteenth century, chiefly due to its harbour, Arbroath had become a
trading and manufacturing centre, famed for boot-making and sail-making (the
Cutty
Sark
's sails were made here). he town's real glory days, however, came much earlier in
the thirteenth century with the completion in 1233 of
Arbroath Abbey
, whose
rose-pink sandstone ruins, described by Dr Johnson as “fragments of magnificence”,
stand on Abbey Street.
