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Monifieth is a town in Angus, sitting on the north shore of the Firth of Tay around six miles east of Dundee, with a population of around 8,000. The name comes from Gaelic, generally taken to mean the bog or moss of the deer, and the settlement is an ancient one — Monifieth was an important early Christian site, and a remarkable group of Pictish carved stones was found at the old church here, now held by the National Museum of Scotland.
The town grew as a fishing and weaving village before the nineteenth century brought industry and then the railway. Monifieth had significant flax and jute works connected to Dundee's textile economy, and the Monifieth Foundry produced agricultural machinery. The railway's arrival in 1838 — on one of the earliest lines in Scotland, the Dundee and Arbroath Railway — turned the town into a seaside resort for Dundee, with a beach, promenade and boarding houses drawing holidaymakers from the city.
Monifieth today is chiefly a residential town and a commuter settlement for Dundee, with a long sandy beach and dunes running east towards Barry Buddon. It has two golf courses, including the Medal Course at Monifieth Links, which has served as an Open Championship qualifying venue and is one of the oldest courses in Scotland, with golf recorded here since the sixteenth century. The links form part of the celebrated Angus golf coast alongside Carnoustie a few miles east.
The Barry Buddon peninsula immediately east is a large Ministry of Defence training area, and its restricted access has left the dunes and grassland as an unexpectedly important wildlife site. The Tay estuary in front of the town is internationally significant for wintering wildfowl and waders, and the reedbeds at Dighty and the Tay's mudflats support substantial bird populations.
Monifieth sits on the A930 with the A92 dual carriageway immediately north, giving Dundee in around fifteen minutes and Arbroath in twenty. Monifieth station is on the Dundee to Aberdeen line with services in both directions. Neighbouring communities include Broughty Ferry, Barnhill, Carnoustie, Newbigging and Muirdrum.
Housing in Monifieth ranges from Victorian stone villas and terraces around the older centre and the seafront to interwar housing, extensive post-war council-built estates, and very substantial modern private development built through the later twentieth century for Dundee commuters. Property is generally above the Angus average, with the beach, the golf and the short run into Dundee underpinning demand.






