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Arbroath Abbey
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Welcome to the website of the Arbroath Guildry Incorporation, the Scottish east coast town’s longest established secular organisation.

The Arbroath Guildry Incorporation was incorporated on the 6th September 1725 as a result of a bargain made by the Town Council with the town’s merchants regarding the building of a new harbour to improve trade.  More information on the Guildry can be found here.

The Guildry today acts principally as a charitable trust but with an important additional remit to protect and promote the heritage of the town, world-famous as the site of the signing of the Declaration of Arbroath.