Fast Castle
Fast Castle is the ruined remains of a coastal fortress in Berwickshire, south-east Scotland, in the Scottish Borders. It lies 4 miles north west of the village of Coldingham, and just outside the St Abb's Head National Nature Reserve, run by the National Trust for Scotland.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Ruin
- Description: medieval castle in Scottish Borders, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Fast Castle,950m NNE of Dowlaw”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Siccar Point and Old Cambus.
Siccar Point
Locality
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Siccar Point is a rocky promontory in the county of Berwickshire on the east coast of Scotland. It is famous in the history of geology for Hutton's Unconformity found in 1788, which James Hutton regarded as conclusive proof of his uniformitarian theory of geological development. Siccar Point is situated 2½ miles west of Fast Castle.
Old Cambus
Hamlet
Old Cambus is a village in the Scottish Borders, Scotland. St. Helens church, which is now a ruin served the area. Old Cambus is situated 3½ miles west of Fast Castle.
Coldingham
Village
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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. Coldingham is situated 4½ miles southeast of Fast Castle.
Fast Castle
- Categories: castle, archaeological site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Uzbek—“Fast Castle” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Fast Castle”
- German: “Fast Castle”
- Japanese: “ファスト城”
- Portuguese: “Castelo Fast”
- Uzbek: “Fast Castle”
- Uzbek: “Tezkor qal’a”
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