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Montrose (/ m ʌ n ˈ t r oʊ z / mun-TROHZ; Scottish Gaelic: Mon Rois [mɔn ˈrˠɔʃ]) is a town and former royal burgh in Angus, Scotland.Situated 28 miles (45 kilometres) north of Dundee and 37 miles (60 kilometres) south of Aberdeen, Montrose lies between the mouths of the North and South Esk rivers.
RAF Montrose closed in 1920. Starting in 1924 the Major Burke's Sheds were again used, this time for the maintenance and refurbishment of Lewis machine guns. [5]In 1935 the British government decided to expand the RAF in the face of a growing threat from Germany and a key requirement was for more trained military pilots.
Upload another image 17 Panmure Place, The Rectory, Including Boundary Walls And Gatepiers 56°42′31″N 2°27′58″W / 56.708615°N 2.46606°W / 56.708615; -2.46606 (17 Panmure Place, The Rectory, Including Boundary Walls And Gatepiers) Category B 38215 Upload Photo Montrose Air Station Buildings 46 And 47 56°43′29″N 2°27′47″W / 56.72486°N 2.463075°W ...
Global pharmaceuticals company GSK has a significant presence in Montrose in the east of the county. Angus was historically a province , and later a sheriffdom and county (called Forfarshire or the County of Forfar until 1928), bordering Kincardineshire to the north-east, Aberdeenshire to the north and Perthshire to the west; southwards it ...
The DD postcode area, also known as the Dundee postcode area, [2] is a group of eleven postcode districts in eastern Scotland, within nine post towns.These cover Dundee and Angus (including Forfar, Arbroath, Brechin, Carnoustie, Kirriemuir and Montrose), plus part of north-east Fife (including Newport-on-Tay and Tayport) and small parts of Perth and Kinross and Aberdeenshire.
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 20:01, 26 September 2010: 1,425 × 1,400 (1.14 MB): Nilfanion {{Information |Description=Blank map of Angus, UK with the following information shown: *Administrative borders *Coastline, lakes and rivers *Roads and railways *Urban areas Equirectangular map projection on WGS 84 datum, with N/S stretched 18
The Ordnance Survey began producing six inch to the mile (1:10,560) maps of Great Britain in the 1840s, modelled on its first large-scale maps of Ireland from the mid-1830s. This was partly in response to the Tithe Commutation Act 1836 which led to calls for a large-scale survey of England and Wales.
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