Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Coldingham Shore

Coldingham Shore, a fishing village in Coldingham parish, Berwickshire, 1½ mile NE of Coldingham village. It has a public school and a boat harbour, formed in 1833 at a cost of £1200; and it carries on fishing for herrings, cod, haddocks, turbot, lobster, and crabs, whilst conducting an extensive trade in the curing of herrings. Three of its fishers were lost in the great gale of 14 Oct. 1881. Pop. (1881) 298.


(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)

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Feature Description: "a fishing village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Coldingham ScoP       Berwickshire ScoCnty

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