Scotland

ARBROATH ABBEY

Abbey Street, Arbroath,
Angus
DD11 1EG
t: 0131 668 8831
e: hs.explorer@scotland.gsi.gov.uk
w: www.historic-scotland.gov.uk/places

The abbey was founded in 1178 by King William the Lion, who was buried here. Read the Declaration of Arbroath in the abbey from which Scotland’s nobility proclaimed their independence from England in 1320.