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Burnmouth is a small fishing village located adjacent to the A1 road on the east coast of Scotland. It is the first village in Scotland on the A1, after crossing the border with England. Burnmouth lies in the parish of Ayton in Berwickshire, part of the Scottish Borders.

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Locality
Burnmouth
Region
Alba / Scotland
Country
United Kingdom
Population
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village
Time zone
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Burnmouth
historic county
Berwickshire
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Bournemouth
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Burnmouth is a small fishing village located adjacent to the A1 road on the east coast of Scotland. It is the first village in Scotland on the A1, after crossing the border with England. Burnmouth lies in the parish of Ayton in Berwickshire, part of the Scottish Borders.

Burnmouth lies at the point where a burn slices through the high cliffs lining this coast en route to the sea. There may have been a mill here in the Middle Ages, but little else until a fishing harbour was built in the 1830s, later extended in 1879 and 1959. The East Coast Main Line railway passes along the top of the cliff here, and was once served by Burnmouth railway station from 1846 to 1962. The Berwickshire Coastal Path is nearby.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Burnmouth” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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