Broad Sands
Broad Sands is a beach in Scottish Borders, Scotland. Broad Sands is situated nearby to Shilments Beach, as well as near the cliff The Souter.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Fast Castle and Coldingham Loch.
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 1 mile northwest of Broad Sands.
Coldingham Loch
Photo: Brian Turner, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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. Coldingham Loch is situated 1½ miles southeast of Broad Sands.
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 2½ miles east of Broad Sands.
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 3 miles southeast of Broad Sands.
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 3½ miles southeast of Broad Sands.
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 4 miles west of Broad Sands.
Broad Sands
- Type: Beach
- Category: landform
- Location: Scottish Borders, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
55.9244° or 55° 55′ 28″ northLongitude
-2.2014° or 2° 12′ 5″ westOpen location code
9C7VWQFX+QCOpenStreetMap ID
way 904554962OpenStreetMap feature
natural=beach
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