Arbirlot
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Arbirlot (Gaelic: Obar Eilid) is a village in a rural parish of the same name in Angus, Scotland. It is situated west of Arbroath. The main village settlement is on the Elliot Water, 2.5 miles from Arbroath. There is a Church of Scotland church and a primary school. The school lies 1 mile further west in the approximate geographic centre of the parish.
A nature trail by the Elliot Water links Arbirlot with the former railway junction of Elliot on the Angus Coast. Arbirlot holds host to a spectacular 23 foot waterfall.
Kelly Castle, which overlooks the Elliot Water, comprises a four-storey tower of the 16th Century set within a 19th-century courtyard. It was a stronghold of the Mowbray family until forfeited to the Stewarts in the early 14th century and was restored by the Earl of Dalhousie Place in the 19th century.
In the 18th and 19th centuries Arbirlot was principally occupied by handloom weavers and farmers, Arbirlot once had a meal mill, slaughterhouse and two schools.
[edit] Notable Natives and Residents
- George Gladstanes ? - 1615, Minister in Arbirlot c1597, afterwards Bishop of Caithness and later Archbishop of St Andrews
- Rev Thomas Guthrie 1803 - 1873, divine and philanthropist, Minister in Arbirlot 1827-1837
- Rev John Kirk ? - ?, divine and biographer (of Susannah Wesley mother of John Wesley, The Mother of the Wesleys, Jarrold, London 1868), Church of Scotland Minister in Arbirlot 1837 - ? and later first Free Church of Scotland Minister in Arbirlot
- Sir John Kirk 1832 - 1922, physician, naturalist, companion to explorer David Livingstone, diplomat, slavery abolitionist and photography pioneer, lived with his parents in Arbirlot as a young man. Younger son of Rev John Kirk.
[edit] References
Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Survey of Scottish Topography, Statistical, Biographical and Historical, edited by Francis H. Groome Thomas C. Jack, Grange Publishing Works, Edinburgh between 1882 and 1885
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