St Abb’s Head
St Abb's Head is a rocky promontory by the village of St Abbs in Berwickshire, Scotland, and a national nature reserve administered by the National Trust for Scotland. St Abb's Head Lighthouse was designed and built by the brothers David Stevenson and Thomas Stevenson and began service on 24 February 1862.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Nature reserve
- Description: headland in Scottish Borders, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Saint Abbs Head”, “St Abb’s Head National Nature Reserve”, “St Abb’s Head NNR”, and “St. Abb’s Head”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Boat House, Mire Loch, St Abb’s Head and Mire Loch.
Boat House, Mire Loch, St Abb’s Head
Building
Photo: Victuallers, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Boat House, Mire Loch, St Abb’s Head is a building.
Mire Loch
Photo: Mick Knapton, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Mire Loch is a man made freshwater loch situated on St Abb's Head in the Scottish Borders, just over a kilometre NW of the village of St. Abbs at grid reference NT912687.
St Abb’s Head Lighthouse
Lighthouse
Photo: Lisa Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Abb's Head Lighthouse stands on the cliffs at the rocky promontory of St Abb's Head, near the village of St Abbs in Berwickshire. A signal station was established on the cliffs before 1820 and the facilities were shared by Trinity House and Her Majesty's Coastguard.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include St Abbs and Coldingham.
St Abbs
Village
St Abbs is a small fishing village on the southeastern coast of Scotland, within the Coldingham parish of Scottish Borders. The village was originally known as Coldingham Shore, the name St Abbs being adopted in the 1890s.
Coldingham
Village
Photo: Renata, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Coldingham is a village and parish in Berwickshire in the Scottish Borders. It lies a short distance inland from Coldingham Bay, three miles northeast of the fishing village of Eyemouth.
Eyemouth
Photo: Kim Traynor, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Eyemouth is a harbour town in the Scottish Borders. With a population of 3580 in 2022, it's the largest of a string of picturesque fishing villages along the rugged Berwickshire coast. Others, also described here, are Burnmouth, Coldingham and St Abbs.
St Abb’s Head
- Categories: headland, national nature reserve, cape, marine protected area, and recreation area
- Location: Scottish Borders, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.91013° or 55° 54′ 37″ northLongitude
-2.13896° or 2° 8′ 20″ westOperator
National Trust for ScotlandOpen location code
9C7VWV66+2COpenStreetMap ID
way 777053165OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=nature_reserve
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Welsh—“St Abb’s Head” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Saint Abbs Head”
- Chinese: “圣阿布斯角”
- French: “St Abb’s Head”
- French: “St Abbs Head”
- German: “St Abb’s Head National Nature Reserve”
- Japanese: “セント・アバズ・ヘッド”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “St Abb’s Head”
- Spanish: “Cabo de St Abb”
- Spanish: “Cabo de St. Abb”
- Swedish: “Saint Abbs Head”
- Welsh: “Pentir Sant Abb”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Black Gable and Hpes Heugh Nunnery Point.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Kirk Hill and Bell Hill.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “St Abb’s Head”. Photo: Emoscopes, CC BY-SA 3.0.