Whitesands
Whitesands is a beach in East Lothian, Scotland. Whitesands is situated nearby to Drinking Fountain, as well as near Dunbar Quarry.Places of Interest Nearby
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. Barns Ness Lighthouse is situated 4,000 feet east of Whitesands.
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 364.1 miles from London King's Cross. Dunbar railway station is situated 2 miles west of Whitesands.
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. Dunbar Collegiate Church is situated 2 miles west of Whitesands.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Broxburn and Dunbar.
Broxburn
Hamlet
Photo: Jennifer Petrie, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Broxburn is a hamlet consisting of a handful of scattered houses which serve the Broxmouth estate in East Lothian, Scotland. It is named after the stream upon which it stands, the Brox Burn.
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
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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. Innerwick is situated 2 miles south of Whitesands.
Whitesands
- Type: Beach
- Category: landform
- Location: East Lothian, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.98921° or 55° 59′ 21″ northLongitude
-2.4648° or 2° 27′ 53″ westOpen location code
9C7VXGQP+M3OpenStreetMap ID
way 210640059OpenStreetMap feature
natural=beach
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