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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.

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. St Abb’s Head Lighthouse is situated 1 mile east of Admiralty Distance Pole.

Coldingham Loch

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Coldingham Loch is a freshwater loch in the parish of Coldingham, in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland, in the former Berwickshire, between Coldingham Moor and St Abb's Head. Coldingham Loch is situated 2,100 feet southwest of Admiralty Distance Pole.

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St Abbs

Village

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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. St Abbs is situated 1½ miles southeast of Admiralty Distance Pole.

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 Admiralty Distance Pole.

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.

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