Saint Abbs Head Lighthouse
Saint Abbs Head Lighthouse is a lighthouse in Scottish Borders, Scotland. Saint Abbs Head Lighthouse is situated nearby to St Abb’s Head Lighthouse, as well as near the village Coldingham.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include St Abb’s Head Lighthouse and Foghorn, St Abb’s Head Lighthouse.
St Abb’s Head Lighthouse
Lighthouse
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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.
Foghorn, St Abb’s Head Lighthouse
Building
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Foghorn, St Abb’s Head Lighthouse is a building.
St Abb’s Head
Nature reserve
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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.
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
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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 2 miles south of Saint Abbs Head Lighthouse.
Eyemouth
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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.
Saint Abbs Head Lighthouse
- Type: Lighthouse
- Categories: tourist attraction and tourism
- Location: Scottish Borders, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.91622° or 55° 54′ 58″ northLongitude
-2.13888° or 2° 8′ 20″ westElevation
207 feet (63 metres)Open location code
9C7VWV86+FCGeoNames ID
9782179
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