Angus Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
council area of Scotland
About Angus
The county of Angus is named for the 8th-century Pictish King Óengus, son of Fergus, whose power extended into Strathclyde, Ulster and Northumbria. This area was his heartland and its Pictish culture is seen in distinctly-carved stones and in placenames beginning "Pit-". It's a mostly lowland area, even though it lies north of the River Tay; the Highland Fault trends diagonally to reach the sea at Stonehaven. Angus, known as Forfarshire until 1928, therefore had armies march across it but saw no great battles, and quietly got on with raising its Aberdeen Angus beef cattle. The textile industry, whaling and sea trade caused the port of Dundee to grow from the 18th century, and grow and grow, until in 1894 it was hived off as a separate "city-county". Local authority boundaries and terminolo
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