Moorside Plantation

Moorside Plantation is a forest in Scottish Borders, Scotland. Moorside Plantation is situated nearby to the hamlet Buskinburn, as well as near Whinney Farm.

Places of Interest

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

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 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 Abbs Harbour

Marina

Photo: Jennifer Petrie, CC BY-SA 2.0.

St Abbs Harbour is a marina.

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

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.5.

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.

Reston

Village

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Reston is a village located in the southeast of Scotland, in Berwickshire, Scottish Borders region. The village lies on the western bank of the Eye Water.

Moorside Plantation

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

55.9043° or 55° 54′ 15″ north

Longitude

-2.1835° or 2° 11′ 1″ west

Open location code

9C7VWR38+PH

OpenStreetMap ID

way 295778256

OpenStreetMap feature

landuse=forest

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Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

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