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Dunnichen

Dunnichen is a small village in Angus, Scotland, situated between Letham and Forfar.

Dunnichen
Dunnichen · Jonathan Oldenbuck
The place

Dunnichen is a small village in Angus, Scotland, situated between Letham and Forfar. It is close to Dunnichen Hill, at which the Battle of Dun Nechtain is popularly believed to have been fought. The church is part of the parish of Letham, Dunnichen and Kirkden.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Dunnichen

3 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Rescobie Loch

    Rescobie Loch is a post glacial fresh water body located in the parish of Rescobie, 4 km to the East of Forfar, in the county of Angus, Scotland. The loch is fed by Lunan Water which enters from the West and exits to the East.

    3 km · lake in Angus, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Loch Fithie

    Loch Fithie is a small, lowland freshwater loch lying approximately 2 miles east of Forfar, Scotland. It is approximately 800 m in length.

    3.1 km · lake in Angus, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Restenneth Priory

    Restenneth Priory was a monastic house of Augustinian canons founded by Jedburgh Abbey, with the patronage of King Malcolm IV of Scotland, in 1153. Although there is little literary evidence, archaeological evidence strongly indicates that there was a monastery at Restenneth from very early times.

    3.7 km · monastery in Angus, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Dunnichen

Airports
Aberdeen (ABZ), 74 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 83 km · Glasgow (GLA), 131 km
Stations
Auldbar Road railway station, 3.6 km
  • Aberdeen → Dunnichen
    71 km · quickest by road, 1h 39m · £8–11
  • Ingliston, Edinburgh → Dunnichen
    84 km · quickest by road, 2h 14m · £11–15
  • Glasgow → Dunnichen
    124 km · quickest by road, 2h 24m · £14–19
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Dunnichen

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Dunnichen. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    181 km
  2. 02
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    186 km
  3. 03
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    200 km
  4. 04
    The Small Isles - Eigg, Muck, Rum and CannaGB

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    220 km
  5. 05
    Isle of SkyeGB

    12 ways of moving, 18 sources

    224 km

If you know how people move in Dunnichen – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Dunnichen

  • Lethamvillage in Angus, Scotland, UK2.1 km
  • Craichievillage in Angus, Scotland, UK1.6 km
  • Caldhamevillage in Angus, Scotland, UK3.7 km
  • Bowriefauldvillage in Angus, Scotland, UK1 km
  • Kingsmuirvillage in Angus, Scotland, UK2.9 km