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  Brechin Castle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Brechin Castle is a castle located in Brechin, County Angus, Scotland.
The castle is the seat of the Earl of Dalhousie who is clan chieftain of Clan Maule of Panmure in Angus and Clan Ramsay of Dalhousie in Midlothian.
The seat of the Ramsay clan was moved from Dalhousie Castle to Brechin Castle in the early 20th century.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Brechin_Castle   (235 words)

  
 Brechin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The town is well known for the tenth century Brechin Cathedral.
The 2001 census recorded Brechin's population as 7 199.
Also in the burgh is the Pictavia exhibition on the Picts, a museum and a station on the Caledonian Railway (Brechin).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Brechin   (113 words)

  
 Angus Council | For The Visitor | Brechin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Heading inland, almost on the northern boundary of Angus, lies the ancient Cathedral City of Brechin (pop 7,900).
century when the foundations were laid for a cathedral, and Brechin grew into a place of considerable importance.
Brechin's religious role is still in evidence today with the Cathedral serving worshippers as the parish church.
ahead.angus.gov.uk /visitor/brechin.htm   (189 words)

  
 History of Brechin
Brechin and the Scottish Wars of Independence The ancient city did not escape the wars in the thirteen and fourteenth centuries that were the consequence of Edward I's attempts to subjugate the Scots and create a greater England.
King John fled to the Angus hills but in July, having little or no support, he intimated his willingness to submit to Edward and a few days later surrendered at Stracathro.
The Bishop of Durham summoned the Scots to Brechin Castle where they were made aware of the English demands.
www.brechin-angus.co.uk /brechin/history/h_sco.htm   (294 words)

  
 Brechin Business park   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Angus Council is undertaking environmental improvements at Brechin Business Park to enhance the area for those working in and visiting the area.
Angus Council is developing new access road at Brechin Business Park to open up six new plots for development.
Brechin Business Park now has six complete buildings complete on the prestige gateway site - Angus Digital Media Centre, Edzell Engineering, Rutland Electric Fencing, Alba Pools, Black's of Brechin, and an advance unit that the Council is promoting for use as a customer contract centre.
www.brechin-business-park.com   (277 words)

  
 Dalhousie - Sporting Estate — Walled Garden - Scotland's Garden Scheme — Brechin - Angus
Brechin Castle Gardens represents one of the finest private gardens in Scotland.
The Brechin Castle Gardens are a real delight for enthusiasts wishing to explore a designed landscape where every turn brings you a different vista and with a whole new variety of trees, shrubs or flowers to discover.
Brechin Castle and Gardens are open to the public from 9 July to 7th August 2005 with guided tours only at 2.00pm and 3.15pm Groups can visit the gardens by separate arrangement.
www.dalhousieestates.co.uk /gardens.shtml   (423 words)

  
 Brechin (Angus) - in the Central Scotland of Scotland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Brechin (Angus) - in the Central Scotland of Scotland
Brechin is located in Angus in the Central Scotland of Scotland.
Pin your notices on the Brechin noticeboard to target the local population.
www.localnotices.com /CityIndex/Brechin_Angus.htm   (56 words)

  
 Visit Brechin
Brechin is a town with a considerable history: even its football club has been around since 1906.
It was the nineteenth century that saw the real growth of Brechin, based largely on textiles.
At the heart of Brechin is the Cathedral itself.
www.angusahead.com /web/site/VisitAngus/ExploringAngus/VisitBrechin.asp   (328 words)

  
 John Gall
Brechin had many inns and public houses and other drinking establishments, but the only ones being posting hotels on the Aberdeen-to-Edinburgh route were the Swan and the Crown.
Around one mile north of Brechin the ground slopes steeply upwards for one quarter of a mile and at the top of the hill John would have known he was passing his cottage with his pregnant wife and three children inside.
Smith to Brechin in search of the cattle: saw stots again and when found; saw one of the stots in the area behind the Tolbooth and Courthouse at Brechin and knows it to be his.
members.aol.com /ewalker01/brechin/Page68.html   (5123 words)

  
 About Brechin, Angus, Scotland
Brechin is the most northern town in Angus.
The cathedral was built as the Brechin monastery, and it contains stones that date from the 8th and 9th centuries, and were probably in the graveyard at a time when the tower was the sole building.
Brechin Castle remains a residence, and the Brechin Castle Centre offers visitors a fine garden centre, farming heritage museum, etc. A conventional museum is found in the public museum in St Ninians Square.
home.freeuk.net /colin.paton/brechin.htm   (543 words)

  
 Angus Council | For The Visitor | Angus Towns   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The seven Angus towns are the main centres of population and commerce, each unique in its own way, but all with much to offer the visitor and resident.
Nestling in the Angus countryside is the Cathedral City of Brechin famous for its ancient round tower - one of only two in Scotland.
The Angus towns are complemented by thriving rural communities based in many of the picturesque villages throughout the area.
ahead.angus.gov.uk /visitor/burghs.htm   (259 words)

  
 Overview of Brechin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
A burgh town in the valley of Strathmore, Angus, Brechin is situated on the River South Esk 9 miles (14.5 km) west of Montrose.
Brechin Cathedral, which incorporates one of only two surviving 11th century round towers in Scotland, was built in a Gothic style in the 13th century.
Brechin was the birthplace in 1892 of the physicist Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt, who is associated with the development of radar.
www.geo.ed.ac.uk /scotgaz/towns/townfirst388.html   (260 words)

  
 Angus Council | History | Libraries | Brechin Library - Genealogy Resources
Brechin Library holds a collection of books and ephemera highlighting all aspects of Brechin past and present.
Also included are Roy’s Military Survey 1747-55, John Wood’s 1822 map of Brechin, Pont and Gordon’s maps of Angus and a plan showing the proposed railway line between Forfar and Brechin.
Available is a list of indexes, transcripts and holdings of manuscript and burgh material held by Angus Archives at the Angus Local Studies Centre.
www.angus.gov.uk /history/libraries/brechinlib.htm   (357 words)

  
 brechin - mytown.ScottishSearch.com - Scotland's Towns On-line...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The old city of Brechin, dating back over 1,000 years, stands proudly on the South Esk, and is built on the side of a steep hill.
This Celtic race left their mark on this part of Angus, with Pictish stones strewn across the landscape, engraved with their strange messages in the shapes of knots, whirls, stylised geese and boar.
Brechin castle, on the edge of the city and separated from the cathedral by a trickling burn, withstood a siege in 1303 and stands within a fine park.
brechin.mytown.scottishsearch.com   (560 words)

  
 BRECHIN, BREECHEN, BRECHEN, BRICHAN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Of local origin from the town of Brechin in Angus.
The seal of John of Bricun (?Brechin) is appended to an indenture of 1285 (Seals Supp., 132).
7), Cuthbert de Brechine, decanus, is mentioned in 1410 (REB., I, 27), John Brechine appears as witness in Brechin in 1471 (bid, p.
www.cass.net /~cburkeen/Brechin.htm   (148 words)

  
 Dalhousie - Sporting Estate - Stalking - Pheasant Shooting - Lodge Letting - Fishing - River North Esk - Fishing ...
Lord and Lady Dalhousie extend a warm welcome to their home at the ancient city of Brechin in the beautiful County of Angus in North East Scotland.
Brechin Castle and the splendid Castle Gardens have been in the Dalhousie Family since the 17th Century and cover 55,000 acres of stunning countryside from rich farmland in the vale of Strathmore at Brechin and Edzell to the summits of the Grampian Mountains.
Angus is an area rich in culture and history with wonderful walking and wildlife, superb salmon fishing, heather moorlands, and high tops where red deer herds are to be seen; also fine golf course and majestic coastal scenery.
www.dalhousieestates.co.uk   (172 words)

  
 Brechin Angus Scotland UK   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Brechin is a good base to explore Angus, Scotland UK.
Brechin Guest Houses offer comfortable yet very affordable places for your stay in Angus in the Scotland region of the UK.
Brechin Bed and Breakfast accommodation is an excellent option and offers a different experience to staying in a hotel.
www.bedsearcher.co.uk /habitation/brechin_ag.shtm   (185 words)

  
 Angus Council | Local History | Historic buildings | Brechin Cathedral
Brechin was endowed by the Irish wife of King Kenneth II who built a church and tower.
This church was to become the mother church of Angus and the Mearns and was in the tradition of the Celtic church.
The effect of the David I’s Normanisation of Scotland in the 12th century were felt in Brechin.
www.angus.gov.uk /history/features/buildings/brechcat.htm   (394 words)

  
 Familia: Angus Council
Held at Angus Archives: Angus electoral rolls, late 20th century only.
Held at Angus Archives: Montrose Burgh papers, 1370 to 1975: Forfar weavers, 1685 to 1878 (also at Forfar library): Dean of guild plans for Carnestie and Montrose: Forfar shoemakers, 1649 to 1898: Montrose hammermen, 1725 to 1762: Arbroath, Brechin, Montrose burgesses: Brechin and Montrose gravestones, plus many more.
Angus parish registers, on microfilm, held at: Arbroath: Brechin: Carnoustie: Forfar: Kirriemuir: Montrose
www.familia.org.uk /services/scotland/angus.html   (288 words)

  
 Scotsman.com News - Education - Literacy meets the video age
The aim of the initiative, developed by Brechin’s Angus Digital Media Centre, Scottish Screen and Angus Council, is to make the moving image an everyday part of children's education in both the primary and secondary school system.
Pupils will be encouraged to develop a range of practical and creative film-making skills, as well as analysing and exploring moving-image media, as part of their general curriculum work.
Schoolchildren at Brechin High School and six of its feeder primaries have been chosen to pilot the project in Scotland.
news.scotsman.com /education.cfm?id=998602004   (477 words)

  
 Brechin Arts Festival   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The Ancient Cathedral City of Brechin is in Angus, Scotland.
Brechin Cathedral is located south west of city centre down Church Lane, which runs from Church Street.
Angus Digital Media Centre is one mile west of city centre in the business park.
www.brechinartsfestival.org   (963 words)

  
 Kinnaird Castle
It was in 1405 that Duthac Carnegie married Mariota, the owner of Kinnaird (in Angus), and he soon acquired the neighbouring lands, which James V elevated into a barony by a Charter under the Great Seal.
Carnegies and the King must have been on very friendly terms, for the "reddendo," or service rendered in payment by the family, was "one silver penny per year," plus the duty of maintaining the King's ale cellar in Angus "against his residence there."
The family seat today is at Kinnaird Castle, Angus.
www.kinnaird.net /castle1.htm   (532 words)

  
 Cyndi's List - Scotland - Angus
A glimpse of 18th Century life in Angus, Scotland and the exploits of young Scots seeking their fortunes in the British empire through the Military and Trade between 1740 and 1802 in the archives of the HUNTERs of Burnside and Dod - an established landowning family with a history of Jacobite support.
Records for the seven burghs of Arbroath, Brechin, Carnoustie, Forfar, Kirriemuir, Montrose and Monifieth.
Includes the former counties of Angus, Perthshire, Fife and Kinross in Scotland.
www.cyndislist.com /sct-ans.htm   (1082 words)

  
 Discounted hotel reservations around Brechin, Angus and throughout the UK   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Comprehensive listing of hotels and places to stay around Brechin, Angus and the rest of Great Britain, all of which can be reserved on-line.
Below is a selection of hotels, guest houses, pubs, bed and breakfasts and other places to stay that are located around Brechin, Angus.
Click to see hotels in Angus, towns close to Brechin or all major towns in Angus.
www.hotelhound.co.uk /uk/angus/brechin   (1661 words)

  
 Little Brechin Angus Scotland UK   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Little Brechin is a good base to explore Angus, Scotland UK.
Little Brechin Guest Houses offer comfortable yet very affordable places for your stay in Angus in the Scotland region of the UK.
Little Brechin Bed and Breakfast accommodation is an excellent option and offers a different experience to staying in a hotel.
www.bedsearcher.co.uk /habitation/little_brechin_ag.shtm   (190 words)

  
 Brown Horse Hotel, Brechin, Angus - pub details # beerintheevening.com
Address: 62, Market St, Brechin, Angus, DD9 6BD [map]
NB: Information about this pub is incomplete as it has not been visited by a member of the beerintheevening.com team and is not currently registered.
Brechin Arms, Brechin (0.2 miles), City Royal Bar, Brechin (0.3 miles), Caledonian Hotel, Brechin (0.3 miles), Park Bar, Brechin (0.4 miles), Red Lion Inn, Brechin (0.6 miles)
x2fwww.beerintheevening.com /pubs/show.shtml/15901/Brown_Horse_Hotel/Brechin   (141 words)

  
 Brechin, Angus - UK companies
A.J. Allan (Brechin) Ltd, East Mill Road Brechin, Angus DD9 7HJ
Callegari BVMS, MRCVS, The Crofts Veterinary Centre 2 Park Road, Brechin, Angus DD9 7AF
A.F. Murray and Co., Blackden Brechin, Angus DD9 6TA
www.agregister.co.uk /town-12050.html   (157 words)

  
 RootsWeb: ANGUS-L [ANGUS] Jean RAE - Brechin,ANGUS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Would any one have this lady in their family tree???.Jean RAE was born on the 5th of February 1811,Brechin,Angus.Jean,s parents were Francis RAE and Jean SAUNDERSON.Siblings were,Helen,John and Isabella.
[ANGUS] Jean RAE - Brechin,ANGUS by "Leanne Quirk" < >
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newsarch.rootsweb.com /th/read/ANGUS/2000-02/0950000390   (68 words)

  
 The Village Parish of Brechin in Angus, country of Scotland UK - Local Information Events Bed & Breakfast Hotels Pubs ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The Village Parish of Brechin in Angus, country of Scotland UK Property for Sale, Propert to Let, Houses, Homes detached and semi-detached, Flats
The Village Parish of Brechin in Angus, country of Scotland UK News, Notices, Local Issues and Events
The Village Parish of Brechin in Angus, country of Scotland UK Societies and Groups
www.ukvillages.com /ukvillages.nsf/villages/Brechin-Angus   (283 words)

  
 Ancestors of Gail & William Irwin Alexander Jamieson
Alexander married Christina (Christian) Watson, daughter of Alexander Watson and Janet Taylor, on 2 May 1864 in Brechin, Angus, Scotland.
Alexander also married Jean Robert(S), daughter of James Robert and Isobel Langlands, on 28 Dec 1854 in Brechin, Angus, Scotland.
(Jean Robert(S) was born on 21 Oct 1810, christened on 21 Oct 1810 in Brechin, Angus, Scotland
homepages.ihug.co.nz /~irwin/legacyfamilytree/205.htm   (179 words)

  
 Commercial Agents in Brechin with shops, offices & other business premise for sale & commercial property rentals in ...
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