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St Abb’s Head Lighthouse

St Abb's Head Lighthouse stands on the cliffs at the rocky promontory of , near the village of in . A signal station was established on the cliffs before 1820 and the facilities were shared by Trinity House and Her Majesty's Coastguard.
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Photo: Lisa Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0.
  • Type: Lighthouse
  • Description: lighthouse in Berwickshire, Scotland
  • Also known as: “St. Abbs Lighthouse”

Places of Interest Nearby

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

Building
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is a building.

Nature reserve
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St Abb's Head is a rocky promontory by the village of in , , 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.

Photo: Mick Knapton, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a man made freshwater loch situated on in the , just over a kilometre NW of the village of St. Abbs at grid reference NT912687. is situated 1,800 feet southwest of St Abb’s Head Lighthouse.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include St Abbs and Coldingham.

Village
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is a small fishing village on the southeastern coast of Scotland, within the parish of . The village was originally known as Coldingham Shore, the name being adopted in the 1890s.

Village
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is a village and parish in in the . It lies a short distance inland from , three miles northeast of the fishing village of . is situated 2 miles south of St Abb’s Head Lighthouse.

Photo: Kim Traynor, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a harbour town in the . 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.

St Abb’s Head Lighthouse

Latitude
55.91621° or 55° 54′ 58″ north
Longitude
-2.13877° or 2° 8′ 20″ west
Operator
Northern Lighthouse Board
Open location code
9C7VWV86+FF
Open­Street­Map ID
way 849455425
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­yes
Open­Street­Map feature
man_made=­lighthouse
Wiki­data ID
Q5856384
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In Other Languages

From Chinese to Spanish—“St Abb’s Head Lighthouse” goes by many names.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Kirk Hill and Floater Rock.

Nearby Places

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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 “St Abb’s Head Lighthouse”. Photo: Lisa Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0.