Foghorn, St Abb’s Head Lighthouse
Foghorn, St Abb’s Head Lighthouse is a building in Scottish Borders, Scotland. Foghorn, St Abb’s Head Lighthouse is situated nearby to Mire Loch, as well as near the peak Kirk Hill.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Building
- Description: foghorn in Scottish Borders, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Foghorn (disused)” and “St Abb’s Head Lighthouse, Foghorn”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include St Abb’s Head Lighthouse and St Abb’s Head.
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
Nature reserve
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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.
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 1,900 feet southwest of Foghorn, St Abb’s Head Lighthouse.
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
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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 Foghorn, St Abb’s Head Lighthouse.
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.
Foghorn, St Abb’s Head Lighthouse
- Category: foghorn
- Location: Scottish Borders, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.91642° or 55° 54′ 59″ northLongitude
-2.13837° or 2° 8′ 18″ westOpen location code
9C7VWV86+HMOpenStreetMap ID
way 849455424OpenStreetMap feature
building=serviceWikidata ID
Q17847744
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Highlights include Kirk Hill and Floater Rock.
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