Brechin

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Brechin

Total population

7,186

Coordinates56.73°, -2.66°

Demographic figures from UK Office for National Statistics. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Brechin is a town and former royal burgh in Angus, Scotland. Traditionally Brechin was described as a city because of its cathedral and its status as the seat of a pre-Reformation Roman Catholic diocese, but that status has not been officially recognised in the modern era.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Notable people from here

Anne Begg

British politician (born 1955)

Fox Maule-Ramsay, 11th Earl of Dalhousie

British politician (1801-1874)

Robert Watson-Watt

physicist (1892-1973)

Violet Jacob

Scottish writer (1863–1946)

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Robin Orr

Scottish composer (1909–2006)

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David Will

Scottish footballer (1936-2009)

Jim Krøft

British musician

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Stuart Hood

British writer (1915–2011)

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Peter-John Vettese

British keyboardist, songwriter, arranger and record producer

Adam Thom

Canadian journalist (1802–1890)

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James Small

British botanist (1889-1955)

Alexander Small Matthew

Canadian politician

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Arthur Milne

Scottish footballer (1915-1997)

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Charles Sutherland

Scottish footballer (1898-?)

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Collie Martin

Scottish footballer (1890-1917)

Colvin Smith

British artist (1795-1875)

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Brechin

Memorials of Peter Smith: Born, Brechin, Scotland, Sept. 21, 1802. Died ..

Peter Smith · 1881

Memorials of Peter Smith

Smith, Peter · 1881

Registrum episcopatus Brechinensis

Chalmers, Patrick · 1856

Report by the Aggregate Committee of the Heritors, Kirk-Session, and Town Council of Brechin

Brechin (Scotland). Aggregate Committee on the State of the Poor · 1839

The history of Brechin, to 1864

David Dakers Black · 1867

The writings and life of William Black Laws, late bookseller of Glasgow, Scotland

William Black Laws · 1895

The commissariot record of Brechin

Scotland (Commissariot) Brechin · 1902

Brechin (North West)

Ordnance Survey · 1980

Search results from Open Library.

Official Identifiers