Arbroath

Arbroath is a former royal burgh and the largest town within the council area of Angus in Scotland, and has It lies on the North Sea coast, around 25.7 km ENE of Dundee and 72.4 km SSW of Aberdeen. While there's proof for settlement of the location now occupied by means of the town that dates returned to the Iron Age, Arbroath's records as a town starts in the High Middle Ages with the founding of Arbroath Abbey in 1178.

Arbroath grew extensively in the course of the Industrial Revolution attributable to the expansion of firstly the flax and secondly the jute industries and the engineering quarter. A new harbour became constructed in 1839 and by using the 20th century, Arbroath had come to be certainly one of the bigger fishing ports in Scotland. The city is tremendous as the home of the Declaration of Arbroath, in addition to the Arbroath smokie.

The town's football team, Arbroath Football Club, maintain the sector file for the best quantity of desires scored in a expert soccer match. They received 36–0 towards Aberdeen Bon Accord within the Scottish Cup in 1885. The Bell Rock Lighthouse, off the coast of Angus, Scotland, is the sector's oldest surviving sea-washed lighthouse. It become constructed between 1807 and 1810 by using Robert Stevenson on the Bell Rock inside the North Sea, eleven miles east of the Firth of Tay. Standing 35 metres tall, its light is seen from 35 statute miles inland.