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15th-16th century date but overlying an early vaulted sub- AD 1 The present harbour, now developed as a marina, dates RO 13 D C T ET H A croft. It has been used for many things since the AI N RE A O RN RA T ST Y R from 1877. The Harbour office occupies the site of the IE G R 12 EST S Reformation including a thread factory in the late 18th E S O N H N TR P ER E O mediaeval Chapel of St Mary, known as the Lady Chapel. IV EE A T R T H D A century. Continue through the Pend, and emerge on the D T R E R D S S outer side of the Abbey Gatehouse which flanks the great D O 2 Near the old Harbour office is a memorial to the crew of N FE N A RG West door. Its imposing appearance (the portcullis L US B the Robert Lindsay lifeboat who lost their lives in 1953. H U C SQ WELLGATE features on Arbroath’s coat of arms) is deliberate, for this, O UA R N C L RE LIFF S BU the main gate, controlled the flow of visitors and EL I RN 3 West of the Harbour stands the Bell Rock Signal Tower, a LIO D RD T E T commercial traffic to the precinct. For all that it was a ST E R D E late Regency style complex built in 1813 as the signalling E T R E R S T L T T place of seclusion, the Abbey, with all its great patrons, I I N S N V R BO station and shore base for the famous Bell Rock D E U H B W B I A LA was also an important centre of temporal affairs. At no 1 S RD G R 2 A O H DE Lighthouse, 11 ⁄ miles out to sea. Today, the lighthouse is Y L N 11 S time was this shown more strongly than on 6 April 1320 S T PO automatic and the Signal Tower houses Arbroath’s T R E when the Scottish Barons under King Robert the Bruce G E popular museum. R T A 15 assembled here to sign the famous Declaration of V T E EET E S Arbroath, its stirring words probably composed by Abbot PTIE STR E E 4 Walk around the harbour edge to the lower end of KE TR N 10 S D 14 Bernard de Linton himself. Arbroath Abbey is an Ancient INE Marketgate and continue along the Old Shore Head (so THER Monument in the care of Historic Scotland. T CA 9 E E V called because it lay opposite the Abbot’s Harbour) to E I R 21 R T 16 6 D Keptie Pond S TE T H S Danger Point and the “Fit o’ the Toon”. This old part of A 17 STREE ILL R G’ N LG HILL OAD N 13 Hamilton Green, sloping down to the High Street, A T IL 19 KI Arbroath retains much of its vernacular character, and a E M 18 8 W E T commemorates the Marquis of Hamilton, the last O R S 7 number of outside stairs and stone-slated roofs are still in G T K O S E N Y Commendator of the Abbey. By this time it had become A N A SB 5 evidence. The Old Brewhouse looks much as it did when D C B RIM A W N G common practice to grant abbeys and bishoprics a L O erected by a shipmaster around 1700; in fact it has been P T 20 N D ST reward for service or to win support, and Arbroath’s last completely rebuilt. “Danger Point” is an ironic comment O N GE IS A RID L DYB Abbots included the 15 year old Earl of Moray, Cardinal D H N LA E upon the sea’s encroachment here; originally two more D S GAT A I A EA D O S David Beaton and the Duke of Lennox. houses stood between the Old Brewhouse and the L 2 4 E T A shore. These houses were once the targets of Captain G Walk down the High Street, an ancient route bordering L N 1 Fall’s pirate attack on the town and harbour in 1781. IL A the Abbey precinct. The old name for the upper part of M O YL A D the street, Elemosynary (Almonry) Street, recalls the LEX A This is the heartland of the famous “Arbroath Smokie” AN L DRA practice of distributing alms to the poor and needy. PL 3 © Crown copyright and database right 2013. All rights reserved. 100023404. industry. Haddock was cured in special sheds behind the ACE rows of fishers’ cottages, suspended over smoking pits known as “barrels”. Despite its name the smokie is a comparative newcomer to Arbroath, having arrived after 1830 with the fishers themselves. Prior to this the main Ponderlaw marks the southern end of the Abbey precinct fishing village in the area was Auchmithie, some three 6 From the park gates it is worthwhile climbing Boulzie Hill wall, and in former times it would have been bounded on miles up the coast. for its fine sweeping views over the coast and the town, the north side by a high wall, broken only by the south offering a view of Arbroath’s “castle” as the 1885 Water east or Darn Gate. Now, however, one can approach the 5 Seagate (once the main entrance to the town from the Tower on Keptie Hill is often called. Alternatively, take the Abbey via the Abbey Streets, which were laid out after the east) and South Street bring one to the entrance of Victoria easier gradient along Hill Road past Colin Grant’s Shoe Town Council acquired the precinct in 1753, or by Barber’s Park, opened in 1897, to commemorate Queen Victoria’s Factory (1882) now converted into flats after many years Croft, which probably commemorates a local family rather Diamond Jubilee. A road leads from here to Whiting Ness, as the Marine B allroom. than the gentlemen who trimmed the monk’s tonsures. the start of Arbroath’s red sandstone cliffs, passing on the way St. Ninian’s (or Ringan’s) Well, a reminder of a now 7 The shoe factory was founded in 1862; this was one of a vanished mediaeval chapel dedicated to this early Celtic number of famous shoemaking firms in the town, the missionary. The cliff-top path has been made into a Nature other being founded in 1857 by Samuel Fairweather, and Trail and extends all the way to Auchmithie. Fraser’s, best known for engineering, who also invented West of the canvas rope soled shoes. Harbour 8 Newgate House, near the corner of Hill Road and West Newgate was built around the early 1600s by the stands the Bell Carnegie family using stones from the Abbey. It is probably Arbroath’s oldest surviving example of secular architecture. Rock Signal A very similar house can be seen in Marketgate. The house once sat on the edge of the burgh within its own estate but the land was gradually feued off during the 18th Tower, a late century. The house was refurbished around 1800 when the Adam style doorway was added, and was later Regency style restored by the Angus Housing Association. Arbroath Abbey complex built 9 Hill Terrace, built in the early 19th century, comes as a contrast after the vernacular fishers’ quarters with its 12 Arbroath Abbey stands on a low terrace above the in 1813. ashlar facings, decorative guttering and fashionably Brothock Valley. Founded in 1178 by King William the elegant air. Lion and dedicated to his friend, the martyred Thomas Beckett, it housed some 40 monks of the Tironensian 10 This was the site of the old burgh school, replaced in order. The cruciform church is transitional in style, the 1821 by a new Academy and refurbished as the Public great West Doorway Romanesque, the rest a pointed- Library, opening on 14 June 1898. arched style of early 13th century date. Only the southern side, with its famous “Round O” window 11 A short distance up Ponderlaw (named after the Abbey remains to any extent complete. “ponder” who looked after its woods and forests) and best seen from the entrance to Springfield Park is the En route to the Abbey note the Abbot’s House, Top: Harbour; Bottom left: Robert Burns Statue; Bottom right: Seaton Cliffs octagonal Wesleyan Methodist Chapel of 1772. the only surviving conventional building; mainly of