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From the summits of the Angus Glens, through the glorious countryside, pleasant villages and bustling towns of the county, to the lively streets and visitor experiences of Dundee, you'll find walking in the footsteps of your ancestors a memorable experience.
When you visit Angus & Dundee to research your family history, make sure you have time to explore a little...
Get hands-on with history: taste the salt and smell the tar onboard the historic ships HM Frigate Unicorn or the RRS Discovery at Dundee's exciting weaterfront; go upstairs/ downstairs at Glamis Castle and Angus Folk Museum to see how the aristocracy and the ordinary cottars lived; hear the clack of the jute mills and learn about the women who worked in them at Verdant Works in Dundee.
Visit Arbroath Abbey and touch the very stones which witnessed the signing of the document
which was to unite the Scots nobles under one standard to govern the nation.
Sense the lives of the pictish tribes who roamed the hills and glens of the county in the first millennium at Pictavia and at historic sites such as Brechin and Aberlemno.
Explore the earliest settlers legacy of earth houses and hill forts; enjoy fascinating local museums dedicated to interpreting a marvellous collection of artefacts and exhibits.
The county of Angus, the beautiful Mearns of Kincardineshire (made famous by Lewis Grassic Gibbon in his Scots Quair trilogy) and the City of Dundee all have their place in literary and artistic history.
Peter Pan, author and playwright J M Barrie was born in a weavers cottage in Kirriemuir and the 1920s saw a burgeoning of literary and artistic activity in Angus, when Hugh MacDiarmid, Edwin Muir and Edward Baird (the artist) all lived in Montrose.
To find out more about what Angus & Dundee has to offer, go to Visit Angus or to www.angusanddundee.co.uk and for information on what nearby areas have to offer, go to our Touring In The Area page.
