Coldingham
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.Photo: Renata, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include St Abb’s Head and St Abbs Church, St Abbs.
St Abb’s Head
Nature reserve
Photo: Emoscopes, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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. St Abb’s Head is situated 2 miles northeast of Coldingham.
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. St Abb’s Head Lighthouse is situated 2 miles north of Coldingham.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include St Abbs and Reston.
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.
Reston
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Reston is a village located in the southeast of Scotland, in Berwickshire, Scottish Borders region. The village lies on the western bank of the Eye Water. Reston is situated 2½ miles southwest of Coldingham.
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.
Coldingham
- Type: Village with 530 residents
- Description: village in Scottish Borders, Scotland, UK
- Category: locality
- Location: Scottish Borders, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.88681° or 55° 53′ 13″ northLongitude
-2.157° or 2° 9′ 25″ westPopulation
530Elevation
226 feet (69 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB CGBOpen location code
9C7VVRPV+P6OpenStreetMap ID
node 248639050OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Coldingham” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Coldingham”
- Cebuano: “Coldingham”
- Czech: “Coldingham”
- Dutch: “Coldingham”
- French: “Coldingham”
- German: “Coldingham”
- Irish: “Coldingham”
- Italian: “Coldingham”
- Japanese: “コルディンガムシャー”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Coldingham”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Coldingham”
- Norwegian: “Coldingham”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Coludes burh”
- Persian: “کلدینگهام”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Coldingham”
- Slovak: “Coldingham”
- Spanish: “Coldingham”
- Swedish: “Coldingham”
- Welsh: “Coldingham”
- “Coldingham”
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Notable Places Nearby
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