Shilments Beach
Shilments Beach is a beach in Scottish Borders, Scotland. Shilments Beach is situated nearby to the peak Oatlee Hill, as well as near Moorburn Beach.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include St Abb’s Head and Fast Castle.
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 is situated 2 miles east of Shilments Beach.
Fast Castle
Ruins
Photo: Bubobubo2, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Fast Castle is the ruined remains of a coastal fortress in Berwickshire, south-east Scotland, in the Scottish Borders. It lies 4 miles north west of the village of Coldingham, and just outside the St Abb's Head National Nature Reserve, run by the National Trust for Scotland. Fast Castle is situated 1½ miles northwest of Shilments Beach.
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 2 miles east of Shilments Beach.
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 2½ miles southeast of Shilments Beach.
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. St Abbs is situated 2½ miles southeast of Shilments Beach.
Siccar Point
Locality
Photo: Dave souza, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Siccar Point is a rocky promontory in the county of Berwickshire on the east coast of Scotland. It is famous in the history of geology for Hutton's Unconformity found in 1788, which James Hutton regarded as conclusive proof of his uniformitarian theory of geological development. Siccar Point is situated 4½ miles west of Shilments Beach.
Shilments Beach
- Type: Beach
- Category: landform
- Location: Scottish Borders, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.92084° or 55° 55′ 15″ northLongitude
-2.18841° or 2° 11′ 18″ westOpen location code
9C7VWRC6+8JOpenStreetMap ID
way 904554913OpenStreetMap feature
natural=beach
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