Eyemouth
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: Kim Traynor, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Eyemouth Fishing Disaster Memorial and Ayton Parish Church.
Ayton Parish Church
Church
Photo: james denham, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ayton and Burnmouth Parish Church is a member church of the Church of Scotland, serving the communities of Ayton and Burnmouth in the Scottish Borders. Ayton Parish Church is situated 2½ miles southwest of Eyemouth.
Eyemouth Lifeboat Station
Building
Photo: Bill Henderson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Eyemouth Lifeboat Station is located at Gunsgreen Quay in Eyemouth, a harbour town in the Scottish Borders, approximately 9 miles north of Berwick-upon-Tweed, on the south-east coast of Scotland.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ayton and Coldingham.
Ayton
Village
Photo: Richard Webb, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ayton is a small village located in the historic county of Berwickshire, today part of the Scottish Borders region. It is on the Eye Water, from which it is said to take its name: Ayton means 'Eye-town'. Ayton is situated 2½ miles southwest of Eyemouth.
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. Coldingham is situated 3 miles west of Eyemouth.
Burnmouth
Village
Photo: A15773, Public domain.
Burnmouth is a small fishing village located adjacent to the A1 road on the east coast of Scotland. It is the first village in Scotland on the A1, after crossing the border with England.
Eyemouth
- Type: Town with 3,570 residents
- Description: coastal town in Scottish Borders, Scotland, UK, built around the mouth of the Eye Water
- Categories: small burgh and locality
- Location: Scottish Borders, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.8722° or 55° 52′ 20″ northLongitude
-2.0894° or 2° 5′ 22″ westPopulation
3,570Elevation
36 feet (11 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB EYMOpen location code
9C7VVWC6+V6OpenStreetMap ID
node 246555059OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Welsh—“Eyemouth” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Այմութ”
- Asturian: “Eyemouth”
- Basque: “Eyemouth”
- Bengali: “ইস্ট বারউইকশায়ার”
- Bulgarian: “Ейемоутх”
- Cebuano: “Eyemouth”
- Chinese: “艾茅斯”
- Dutch: “Eyemouth”
- French: “Eyemouth”
- German: “Eyemouth”
- Gujarati: “આઈમાઉથ”
- Irish: “Inbhir Eighe”
- Italian: “Eyemouth”
- Japanese: “Eyemouth”
- Japanese: “アイマス”
- Japanese: “東バーウィックシャー”
- Kannada: “ಐಮೌತ್”
- Korean: “이스트 베르윅셔”
- Lithuanian: “Ist Bervikas”
- Persian: “آیماوث”
- Polish: “Eyemouth”
- Portuguese: “Eyemouth”
- Russian: “Аймут”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Eyemouth”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Inbhir Eighe”
- Spanish: “Eyemouth”
- Swedish: “Eyemouth”
- Tamil: “ஐமௌத்”
- Telugu: “ఐమౌత్”
- Turkish: “Eyemouth”
- Ukrainian: “Аймут”
- Urdu: “یییموود”
- Welsh: “Eyemouth”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Eyemouth”. Photo: Kim Traynor, CC BY-SA 3.0.