St Abb’s Head

St Abb’s Head is a locality in Scottish Borders, Scotland. St Abb’s Head is situated nearby to the locality Hpes Heugh Nunnery Point, as well as near Skelly Hole.

Places of Interest

Highlights include St Abb’s Head Lighthouse and St Abb’s Head.

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

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.

Foghorn, St Abb’s Head Lighthouse

Building

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Foghorn, St Abb’s Head Lighthouse is a building.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include St Abbs and Coldingham.

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.

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 2½ miles south of St Abb’s Head.

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.

St Abb’s Head

Type: Locality
Location: Scottish Borders, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

55.91849° or 55° 55′ 7″ north

Longitude

-2.14086° or 2° 8′ 27″ west

Open location code

9C7VWV95+9M

OpenStreetMap ID

node 587722600

OpenStreetMap feature

place=locality

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