Little Pinkerton

Little Pinkerton is a residential area in East Lothian, Scotland. Little Pinkerton is situated nearby to the forest Pinkerton Hill Strips, as well as near West Roundel.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Dunbar railway station and Barns Ness Lighthouse.

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 1½ miles northwest of Little Pinkerton.

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 2 miles east of Little Pinkerton.

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 1½ miles northwest of Little Pinkerton.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Broxburn and Spott.

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.

Spott

Village

Photo: Jimmydenham, Public domain.

Spott is a small village on the eastern fringes of East Lothian in Scotland, just over 2 miles south-west of Dunbar. The village straddles an unclassified road leading from the main A1 highway at grid reference NT673755.