Abbey Yards Field Cemetery
Abbey Yards Field Cemetery is an archaeological site in Scottish Borders, Scotland. Abbey Yards Field Cemetery is situated nearby to the church Coldingham Priory, as well as near Coldingham Post Office.Places of Interest Nearby
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 1½ miles north of Abbey Yards Field Cemetery.
St Abbs Church, St Abbs
Church
Photo: Victuallers, CC BY-SA 4.0.
St Abbs Church, St Abbs is situated 1¼ miles northeast of Abbey Yards Field Cemetery.
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 Abbey Yards Field Cemetery.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Coldingham and St Abbs.
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.
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.
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.
Abbey Yards Field Cemetery
- Type: Archaeological site
- Categories: historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Scottish Borders, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.88739° or 55° 53′ 15″ northLongitude
-2.15465° or 2° 9′ 17″ westOpen location code
9C7VVRPW+X4OpenStreetMap ID
node 13745830514OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_site
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Coldingham Priory and Coldingham Village Hall.
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