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Brechin in General

Newest Review: ... some local amenities suffer from existing in a no man land's, with neither Council willing to take complete responsibility). A railway linked Brechin to the main East Coast line until 1979, when the last goods train ran into the City. The station is now a popular museum, and there has been several aborted plans to reconnect Brechin to the main network (at the moment, the line peters out two miles from Montrose station). Architecturally, the centre of the town is in some state of decay, although it still remains picturesque owing to its tremendous age. Eighteenth century shops and houses lie adjacent to red-brick nineteenth century hall... more

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Brechin in General: Beyond the Pictavia (700 words)
by - written on 29/03/09 (Very useful, 39 readings)
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A Cathedral City of just over 6000 people, Brechin is situated on a steep hill overlooking the River South Esk in Angus in Scotland. A town of great antiquity, it was initially focussed around the riverside Catherdral, built over a millennium ago. Due to the town's expansion northwards, the spire and tower of the Catherdal complex is now hidden by far smaller buildings built further up the hill. At one point, Brechin was a thriving jute mill town, nearly twice the size it is today, but slowly its wealth and status has been eroded, most recently by the closure of a nearby airforce base in the mid-1990s. Transport links to Brechin are good, with the main A90 ... Read the complete review