Dunbar
Dunbar is a harbour town in East Lothian, on the south-east coast of central Scotland. In 2021 its population was 10,400.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Kim Traynor, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Dunbar railway station and John Muir’s Birthplace.
Dunbar railway station
Railway station
Photo: Walter Baxter, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Dunbar railway station serves the town of Dunbar in East Lothian, Scotland. It is located on the East Coast Main Line and is a two platform station. It is 29 miles 5 chains from Edinburgh Waverley and 364.092 miles from London King's Cross.
John Muir’s Birthplace
Museum
Photo: Kim Traynor, CC BY-SA 3.0.
John Muir's Birthplace, in Dunbar, East Lothian, Scotland, is a museum run by East Lothian Council Museums Service as a centre for study and interpretation of the work of the Scottish-American conservationist John Muir.
Belhaven Hospital
Hospital
Photo: James Denham, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Belhaven Hospital is a community hospital in Beveridge Row, Dunbar, East Lothian. The hospital is managed by NHS Lothian.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include West Barns and Belhaven.
West Barns
Village
Photo: Ian S, CC BY-SA 2.0.
West Barns is a small village in East Lothian, Scotland. It lies 2 miles west of Dunbar and approximately 28 miles east of Edinburgh. It is close to John Muir Country Park and Belhaven Bay.
Belhaven
Suburb
Photo: Bill Henderson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Belhaven is a village in East Lothian, Scotland, and was originally the ancient port of Dunbar of which town the village has always been a part. Belhaven takes its name from its situation at the mouth of the Biel Water.
Broxburn
Hamlet
Photo: Jennifer Petrie, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Broxburn is a hamlet consisting of a handful of scattered houses which serve the Broxmouth estate in East Lothian, Scotland. It is named after the stream upon which it stands, the Brox Burn.
Dunbar
- Type: Town with 9,030 residents
- Description: town in East Lothian, Scotland, UK
- Categories: small burgh and locality
- Location: East Lothian, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
56.0021° or 56° 0′ 8″ northLongitude
-2.5158° or 2° 30′ 57″ westPopulation
9,030Elevation
69 feet (21 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB DBROpen location code
9C8V2F2M+VMOpenStreetMap ID
node 29541385OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Dunbar” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “دنبار”
- Asturian: “Dunbar”
- Basque: “Dunbar”
- Bengali: “ডানবার”
- Catalan: “Dunbar”
- Cebuano: “Dunbar”
- Chinese: “登巴”
- Chinese: “苏格兰”
- Chinese: “蘇格蘭”
- Chinese: “鄧巴”
- Czech: “Dunbar”
- Danish: “Dunbar”
- Dutch: “Dunbar”
- Egyptian Arabic: “دنبار”
- Esperanto: “Dunbar”
- French: “Dunbar”
- Galician: “Dunbar”
- German: “Dunbar”
- Greek: “Ντάνμπαρ”
- Gujarati: “ડંબર”
- Hebrew: “דנבאר”
- Indonesian: “Dunbar”
- Irish: “Dún Bárr”
- Irish: “Dùn Bàrr”
- Irish: “Dún Barra”
- Irish: “Dùn Barra”
- Italian: “Dunbar”
- Japanese: “ダンバー”
- Kannada: “ಡನ್ಬಾರ್”
- Korean: “던바”
- Lithuanian: “Dunbaras”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Dunbar”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Dunbar”
- Norwegian: “Dunbar”
- Persian: “دانبار، اسکاتلند”
- Polish: “Dunbar”
- Portuguese: “Dunbar”
- Russian: “Данбар Шотландия”
- Russian: “Данбар, Шотландия”
- Russian: “Данбар”
- Russian: “Шотландия Данбар”
- Scots: “Dunbar”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Dùn Bàrr”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Dùn Barra”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Dunbar”
- Serbian: “Данбар (Шкотска)”
- Serbian: “Данбар”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Dunbar, Škotska”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Dunbar”
- Slovak: “Dunbar”
- Slovenian: “Dunbar”
- Spanish: “Dunbar”
- Swedish: “Dunbar”
- Tamil: “அஃப்ப்லேடோன்”
- Telugu: “డన్బార్”
- Ukrainian: “Данбар”
- Urdu: “دونبر”
- Welsh: “Dùn Bàrr”
- Welsh: “Dunbar”
- Yue Chinese: “登巴”
- “Dunbar”
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