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Tel: 0845 293 73 73
Eating & Drinking
The Clova Hotel
Good restaurant & bar meals near the top
of Glen Clova. (14 miles)
The But & Ben -
Near the beach, Auchmithie (01241 877223),
serves high tea. (30 miles)
The Drovers Inn
A bar and restaurant in Memus, turn left past
Dykehead (01307 860322) (8 miles)
The Round House
Lintrathen
Off the B951
Kirriemuir/Glenisla Road (01575-560340) Not cheap but very good
food. Nice bar, and the restaurant is in an old round horse-mill.
(8 miles)
Kookaburra
Restaurant
Foresterseat, just south of Forfar on the
Arbroath road. (01307 818005) Quirky Australian cuisine, good food
& great value. (10 miles)
Park Tavern
Roundyhill Kirriemuir
Chapelbank Hotel
Forfar (01307 463151)
Finavon Hotel
Finavon, on the A94 north of Forfar
(01307-850234)
Local Attractions
Glamis Castle
The ancestral home of the Earls of Strathmore
for over 600 years.
Scone Palace
The traditional crowning place for kings of
Scots. 2 miles north of Perth on A93 (01738 552300)
Blair Athol
Home of the the Duke of Athol. Situated in
Blair Athol, Pitlochry, Perthshire, PH18 5TL
Dunkeld cathedral
Cathedral Street, Dunkeld, PH8 0AW
Sandy Beach at Lunan Bay
A beautiful, broad sandy beach with a cliff edge.
J.M.Barrie’s birthplace
A two-story building now in the care of
the National Trust for Scotland. Located at 9 Brechin Road,
kirriemuir, Angus, DD8 4BX, tel 0844493 2142
Walking:
Explore the tarn lochs of Brandy and Wharrel
in Glen, and for the more fit, Jocks’s Road leads north through
Caenlochan National Nature reserve and mountain plateau to
Braemar.
Angus Walking Festival
This annual event usually takes place in the
first week of June each year. The dates for the 2009 Festival
are 28th May to 31st May.
Disclaimer: All
walking routes are hosted on external sites, therefore SYHA can
hold no responsibility towards their accuracy. SYHA would also like
to acknowledge the British
Mountaineering Council Participation Statement: "The BMC
recognises that climbing and mountaineering are activities with a
danger of personal injury or death. Participants in these
activities should be aware of and accept these risks and be
responsible for their own actions".
Active and Adventure
Horse-riding
Pathhead Farm, Forfar Road, Kirriemuir, DD8 5BY (01575 - 572
173)
Gliding
Angus Gliding Club, Drumshade Farm, ,
Kirriemuir, DD8 1QS
Golf
Kirriemuir Golf Club, Shielhill Road, Northmuir, Kirriemuir (
01575 573317)
Wildlife
Red Squirrel, red deer, hare, black game, ptarmiganare, roe
deer, otters, stoats, golden eagles, peregrine falcons