Coldingham Loch

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.

Photo: Brian Turner, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Places of Interest Nearby

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 Abb’s Head Lighthouse is situated 1¼ miles east of Coldingham Loch.

Mire Loch

Photo: Mick Knapton, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Mire Loch is a man made freshwater loch situated on St Abb's Head in the Scottish Borders, just over a kilometre NW of the village of St. Abbs at grid reference NT912687. Mire Loch is situated 1 mile east of Coldingham Loch.

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. Coldingham is situated 1½ miles south of Coldingham Loch.

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 Coldingham Loch.

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.

Coldingham Loch

Type: Body of water
Description: lake in Scottish Borders, Scotland, UK, outflows east to Uily Strand
Category: lake
Location: Scottish Borders, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

55.91047° or 55° 54′ 38″ north

Longitude

-2.16943° or 2° 10′ 10″ west

Open location code

9C7VWR6J+56

OpenStreetMap ID

way 68579143

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=water

Wikidata ID

Q5142534

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In Other Languages

From Dutch to French—“Coldingham Loch” goes by many names.

Dutch: “Coldingham Loch”
French: “Coldingham Loch”

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Highlights include Moorside Plantation and Moorburn Beach.

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