Broughty Ferry sits at the narrow mouth of the Tay, looking south towards Tayport in Fife. Looking up river towards Perth, it has a spectacular view of the two Tay Bridges, road and rail - which jointly represent the reason why you no longer need to board a ferry across to Fife from Broughty Ferry! The wide tidal estuary between Dundee and Perth creates a spectacular flow of water to and fro through the river mouth - a sight to behold as you sit by the harbour in the bright east coast sunlight, eating your fish and chips - or enjoying one of Visocchi's excellent ice creams.

Broughty Castle is situated just south of Broughty's harbour, guarding the selfsame mouth of the Tay - it was last refurbished in anger at the time of the Napoleonic wars, when a cannon shot could reach across the river - but has now become a more cosy and really interesting folk museum. A further claim to fame of Broughty Castle is that it has been adopted as the crest of Abertay Rotary Club, which meets each Monday at the Woodlands, one of Broughty Ferry's many fine hotels.

Broughty Ferry started life as a fishing community, and this can still be seen in the style of many of the waterfront houses. However in Victorian times it became a much grander place to live, attracting the wealthy owners of Dundee's jute mills as they escaped downriver from the smoke of the city. It is said that in the latter part of the nineteenth century, Broughty Ferry had the highest density of millionaires anywhere in Britain. The proportionate number of millionaires has probably now declined, but Broughty still acts as something of a dormitory suburb for the city of Dundee. It is by no means just a dormitory housing estate, though, with its crisscrossing shopping streets offering a refreshing alternative to the chain stores of the city.

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