Mire Loch
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Mick Knapton, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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 1,800 feet northeast of Mire Loch.
Boat House, Mire Loch, St Abb’s Head
Building
Photo: Victuallers, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Boat House, Mire Loch, St Abb’s Head is a building, which is situated 740 feet southeast of Mire Loch.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include St Abbs and Coldingham.
St Abbs
Village
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
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 2 miles south of Mire 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.
Mire Loch
- Type: Body of water
- Description: lake on St Abb’s Head, Scottish Borders, Scotland, UK
- Category: lake
- Location: Scottish Borders, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.9118° or 55° 54′ 43″ northLongitude
-2.14214° or 2° 8′ 32″ westOpen location code
9C7VWV65+P4OpenStreetMap ID
way 68580011OpenStreetMap feature
natural=waterWikidata ID
Q6873085
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In Other Languages
From French to Norwegian Nynorsk—“Mire Loch” goes by many names.
- French: “Mire Loch”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mire Loch”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Kirk Hill and Foghorn, St Abb’s Head Lighthouse.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Mire Loch”. Photo: Mick Knapton, CC BY-SA 3.0.