Auchmithie is a fishing village in Angus, Scotland, three miles north east of the town of Arbroath. It sits atop a red sandstone cliff, approximately 120 feet above a shingle beach which contains an unusual amount of jasper. Angus (Aonghas in Gaelic) is one of the 32 local government council areas of Scotland, and a lieutenancy area. ... Motto: (Latin for No one provokes me with impunity)1. ... The ruined Arbroath Abbey, built from local red sandstone. ...
In the dilapidated harbour, built in 1891, there are still some small fishing boats.
The "Arbroath Smokie" (haddock hot smoked in a particular way) originated in Auchmithie. Arbroath Smokies are a local specialty of Arbroath, of county Angus in Scotland. ...
Sir Walter Scott stayed in the Waverley Hotel in Auchmithie and described Auchmithie in his novel The Antiquary (1816), under the name 'Musslecrag'. For the first Premier of Saskatchewan see Thomas Walter Scott Sir Walter Scott (August 14, 1771 - September 21, 1832) was a prolific Scottish historical novelist and poet popular throughout Europe. ... In his novel Italic textThe AntiquaryItalic text Walter Scott romanticises the life of a collector of old things. ...
External links
Joe Dorward's website with a panoramic view of Auchmithie's harbour
Old photos of Auchmithie and the harbour, pre 1923
Auchmithie, three miles north-east of Arbroath, is a tiny village whose residents originally earned a precarious living by fishing for lobster and crab.
Auchmithie is almost certainly where the Smokie originated.
The rugged cliffs around Auchmithie create in the promontory of Red Head a number of curiously shaped caves and archways which attract large numbers of visitors.
A coastal corridor with an inland boundary eight kilometres radius from Arbroath Town House and extending to the community of West Mains in the north and the community of East Haven in the south.
This Scandanavian connection is relevant to the tradition of hot smoking fish, as it is known that hot smoking was a method used to preserve fish in Scandanavia at that time, carried with the invaders to the village.
In 1705, the villagers of Auchmithie began to move south into Arbroath, accelerated by the efforts of Arbroath council to attract fishermen, to save the town's ailing fishing trade.
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