Coldingham

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Coldingham
Street train in Coldingham
Street train in Coldingham
Coordinates 55 ° 53 ′  N , 2 ° 9 ′  W Coordinates: 55 ° 53 ′  N , 2 ° 9 ′  W
Coldingham (Scotland)
Coldingham
Coldingham
Residents 563 2011 census
administration
Post town EYEMOUTH
ZIP code section TD14
prefix 01890
Part of the country Scotland
Council area Scottish Borders
British Parliament Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk
Scottish Parliament Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire

Coldingham is a village in the northeast of the Scottish Council Area Scottish Borders or in the traditional county of Berwickshire . It is located around four kilometers northwest of Eyemouth and 15 kilometers northeast of Duns . Coldingham is about a kilometer away from the North Sea coast . The port of St Abbs is located on the local Coldingham Bay . To the northwest is Coldingham Moor .

history

In 1097 the Scottish King Edgar donated the lands of Coldingham to the Benedictine monks of Durham Abbey . The following year they built a church there, from which the Coldingham Priory emerged .

Coldingham was the eponymous capital of Coldinghamshire , a district that took up about an eighth of the area of ​​Berwickshire. In 1638 Coldingham was promoted to the status of a Burgh of Barony . Alexander Home, 10th Earl of Home donated the Coldingham Market Cross in 1815 .

Between 1861 and 1891 the population decreased from 655 to 492. While 392 people lived in Coldingham in 1961, the 2011 census survey counted 563 residents.

traffic

The A6107 through Eyemouth is the main road into Coldingham. A few kilometers south runs the A1 , which connects London with Edinburgh . In centuries past, Coldingham was a rest stop along the coast road coming from Edinburgh.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Entry in the Gazetteer for Scotland
  2. ↑ Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  3. ↑ Information from the parish
  4. ^ Coldinghamshire in: FH Groome (ed.): Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Survey of Scottish Topography, Statistical, Biographical and Historical , Grange Publishing Works, Edinburgh, 1882–1885.
  5. ↑ Entry on Market Cross of Coldingham  in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)
  6. ^ Information in the Gazetteer for Scotland
  7. ↑ 2011 census

Web links

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