Lunan is a hamlet in Angus

Angus

Angus is one of the 32 local government council areas of Scotland, a registration county and a lieutenancy area. The council area borders Aberdeenshire, Perth and Kinross and Dundee City...

, Scotland

Scotland

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, in the parish

Parish

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 of the same name, 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) south of Montrose

Montrose, Angus

Montrose is a coastal resort town and former royal burgh in Angus, Scotland. It is situated 38 miles north of Dundee between the mouths of the North and South Esk rivers...

. The hamlet overlooks Lunan Bay at the mouth of the Lunan Water

Lunan Water

The Lunan Water is an easterly flowing river in Angus, Scotland, that discharges to the North Sea north of the town of Arbroath. Draining chiefly agricultural lands, this stream has a moderate level of turbidity and a pH level of approximately 8.7. Other nearby watercourses discharging to the...

. A 16th-century priest of Lunan church, Walter Mill

Walter Milne

Walter Milne , also recorded as Mill or Myln, was the last Protestant martyr to be burned in Scotland before the Scottish Reformation changed the country from Catholic to Presbyterian....

, was one of the last Scottish Protestant martyr

Martyr

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s to be burned at St. Andrews. The church itself was rebuilt in 1844. The 15th-century Red Castle, so called from the red sandstone it is built from, is located 500 metres (1,640.4 ft) to the south of the hamlet, on the south bank of the Lunan Water.

Sources

• Lunan in the Gazetteer for Scotland
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