Whitesands
Whitesands is a nature reserve in East Lothian, Scotland. Whitesands is situated nearby to the locality Mill Stone Neuk, as well as near the hamlet Broxburn.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Barns Ness Lighthouse and Dunbar railway station.
Barns Ness Lighthouse
Lighthouse
Photo: Steve F, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Barns Ness Lighthouse is 3.1 miles from Dunbar and was constructed by the engineers and brothers David A. Stevenson and Charles Alexander Stevenson, cousins of the novelist Robert Louis Stevenson, between 1899 and 1901.
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.
Dunbar Collegiate Church
Church
Photo: Mr H, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Dunbar Collegiate Church is renowned as having been the first collegiate church, in 1342, to have been established in the Lothians. The church was situated on the same site as the present-day parish church, on Queen's Road just south of Dunbar town centre.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Dunbar and Innerwick.
Dunbar
Photo: Nachosan, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Dunbar is a harbour town in East Lothian, on the south-east coast of central Scotland. In 2021 its population was 10,400.
Innerwick
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Innerwick is a coastal civil parish and small village, which lies in the east of East Lothian, five miles from Dunbar and approximately 32 miles from Edinburgh.
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.
Whitesands
- Type: Nature reserve
- Category: recreation area
- Location: East Lothian, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.9877° or 55° 59′ 16″ northLongitude
-2.4671° or 2° 28′ 2″ westOpen location code
9C7VXGQM+34OpenStreetMap ID
node 435416028OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=nature_reserve
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