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Boats lost radiant, Janet, lass o’Gowrie, Sunshine, Fiery Cross, Berwickshire enterprise, Margaret & Mary, Velox, Good intent, excellent Margaret & Catherine, robinas, Pearl, Stormy Petrel, Coastal Path Berwickshire lily of the Valley, Beautiful, Press home, renown, Wave industry, alice, Florida, Six Brothers, harmony, Myrtle, invincible, James & alice, Concord, economy, Christina, Cockburnspath to Berwick two Sisters, Fisher lassies, Snowden,transcendent, coastal path Perserverance, Guiding Star, Forget-Me-not & Blossom. 28½mls (45km) With the second highest cliffs on the east coast of Cockburnspath to Berwick Bronze trail Markers Britain the Borders has one of the most spectacular coastlines in Britain. this area is nationally and 28½mls/45km twelve Bronze trail Markers, by artist John Behm, link the four memorial sculptures along the route. internationally important for seabirds, coastal flora 1. Find these markers using your navigation skills or a and marine life. GPS (co-ordinates on map); St abbs and eyemouth voluntary Marine

2. take rubbings on good stout loose paper with reserve. G18143/06/10. crayons or coloured pencils. the main (eyemouth) marine-reserve.co.uk rubbing needs a piece of paper of roughly a3 size, national trust for Scotland the others are smaller. St abbs head national nature reserve 3. together they form a patchwork picture or collage, nts.org.uk/stabbs within the framework found on eyemouth harbour entrance wall. the collage illustrates aphic Design Section. K aspects of fishing life in 1881: “hard-working fisher lads and fisher lassies; the baiting of lines; fifies WAYMARKED RoutE under sail; the gear and the craft of it all.” s Council Gr

it may seem unnecessary to provide directions other der you don’t have to walk the Coastal Path to collect these gifts. undertake this challenge by car, by than saying – walk north or south keeping the sea on your right or left! you will find interesting facts about foot or by bike. to promote a sense of unexpected ottish Bor gift we have left the location deliberately weak. the history of the landscape inside this leaflet. Good luck and remember to take care near the cliffs! scottishbordersheritage.co.uk

the 125 Memorial association Why not view the sculptures and collect Bronze trail Markers along the way? s. Designed by Sc

are seeking to raise further funds to complete the der sculpture in eyemouth. if you are moved by the event, donations to help complete the memorials may be made you can get this document on tape, in large print, and various to the ‘125 Memorial association’: registered Charity other formats by contacting us at the address below. in ottish Bor number: SC007176 at the banks or the Post office in addition, contact the address below for information on eyemouth by quoting: Sort Code: 832030 account number: language translations, additional copies, or to arrange for an 00189909. officer to meet with you to explain any areas of the publication ed in the Sc

www.eastcoastfishingdisaster.com Print that you would like clarified.

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Cockburnspath to Dowlaw 7½mls (12km) Cockburnspath is the terminus of the Southern upland Way which leads walkers to, or from, Portpatrick, 212 miles(340km) away in Dumfries and Galloway. recently the village has been connected to the John Muir Way which leads walkers through east lothian to Musselburgh, on the fringes of edinburgh. Pease Bay this Site of Special Scientifici nterest is managed by the Scottish Wildlife trust as a nature reserve. look out for woodpeckers, treecreepers, dippers and various tits and finches. roe deer and red squirrels have also been known to make this reserve their home. Siccar Point and St helen’s Church a revolutionary moment in the history of geology came in 1788, when James hutton, James hall and John Playfair took a boat to Siccar Point where they found horizontal layers of red sandstone overlying older, steeply pitched sedimentary rocks known as greywacke. Gunsgreenhouse.org the site confirmedh utton’s theory that the earth was much older than six thousand years, the age (4004 BC) computed from the Bible by Bishop usher in 1654. We St Abbs to Eyemouth 3½mls (6km) (a short but popular section) now know that the Devonian red sandstones were laid Coldingham down some 345 million years ago in desert conditions in the early 700s the first english historian, Bede, wrote about a place and overlay the eroded surface of highly folded Silurian named urbs Coludi or Colud’s fort and the village of Coldingham sediments which had formed 80 million years earlier on represents the settlement of the descendents of Colud. the fort is the bottom of a long-vanished ocean. now identified as Kirk hill on St abbs head, which is named after a royal princess, Æbba of the royal house of northumbria, who set up a Dedicated to the mother of emperor Constantine, monastery of monks and nuns there. the present priory of Coldingham St helen’s Church served the former parish of dates back at least nine centuries to 1098 when it was established by King aldcambus which was united with Cockburnspath after edgar for Benedictine monks from Durham. Men from Fisher’s Brae in the reformation of 1560. Coldingham worked their boats from St Abbs shore before the harbour was constructed. they carried their creels (lobster pots) down the Creel Path. Coldingham Bay is an award-winning beach lying about a mile from the Dowlaw to St Abbs 6½mls (10km) village and its sheltered sands are popular with holidaymakers in the Fast Castle summer months when the Beach Café is open and Beach Guards patrol. Fast Castle occupies a dramatic, sheer-sided rock Eyemouth has been Scotland’s largest south-eastern port since1482 jutting out into the sea. Stumps of masonry represent when Berwick upon tweed was lost to england. in the wars of the mid the final ts age of a castle which was visited by Mary 16th century Fort Point was fortified twice; by the english in the 1540s Queen of Scots in 1566 and captured by an english and by the French several years later. Created a Burgh of Barony in force in 1570. entry is not recommended due to the 1597, eyemouth is the largest town in Berwickshire and the unguarded cliffs and the site is best viewed from the river eye’s deep water is still ideal for landing boats. the town was higher ground on the landward side. Sir Walter Scott once more popular than Gretna Green because of the marriage house later set part of his novel, Bride of lammermuir here, on the Great north road at lamberton, where eloping english couples calling it ‘Wolf’s Crag’. could cross into Scotland to wed. Gunsgreen house was built by local Admiralty Distance Poles smuggler and merchant John nisbet in the 1750s from the profits of his two sets of poles over a measured mile enabled trade and has recently undergone a major refurbishment. shipping companies to test the speed of ocean going vessels. the Cunard liner rMS Mauretania was launched in 1906 and reached 25.73 knots, making her the largest and fastest ship in the world and securing Eyemouth to Berwick upon tweed 11mls (17km) the mail contract with america for over twenty years. the small harbour at Burnmouth (3½mls (6km)) was improved in 1879 and tun Law 1959 to serve the shoreline fishing communities of Partanhall, Cowdrait and at 500ft (150m) this is the highest cliff on the ross who shipped out their catches through upper Burnmouth, which is on Berwickshire coast, also the site of two iron age forts, the Great north road and main line railway. Partan is the local name for a which are represented by defensive banks and ditches crab. on the landward side. Berwick upon tweed Pettico Wick and St Abbs head Berwick has changed hands no fewer than fourteen times and although a favourite venue for divers, the cove of Pettico Wick english since 1482, its football team still plays in the Scottish league! has magnificent views of the coastline. the jetty was the ramparts provide a popular promenade around the town and were built built to land supplies for the lighthouse prior to the in their present form in the 16th century in response to the construction road and this was also the location of an early salmon of a French fort at eyemouth. the Barracks were designed by nicholas hawksmoor (more famous for his london churches) and built in 1711-21, fishing ts ation. Beyond St abbs lighthouse is Kirk redheugh & Siccar making them the oldest in Britain. the tweed is crossed by old Berwick hill, site of the 7th century monastery of St Æbba and Point Bridge (1611) with its fifteen sandstone arches, the royal tweed Bridge a later chapel. St abbs head national nature reserve (1925) and robert Stephenson’s royal Border Bridge (1847-50), which is famous for its many thousands of seabirds and wild carries the main east Coast railway line. coastal plants.