Dunbar
Dunbar
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 Tolbooth an mercat cross, Dunbar High Street | |
  Dunbar Location within East Lowden | |
| Population | 8,486 [2] (2011 census) |
| OS grid reference | NT678789 |
| Cooncil area | |
| Lieutenancy area | |
| Kintra | Scotland |
| Sovereign state | Unitit Kinrick |
| Post toun | DUNBAR |
| Postcode destrict | EH42 |
| Diallin code | 01368 |
| Police | Scots |
| Fire | Scots |
| Ambulance | Scots |
| EU Pairlament | Scotland |
| UK Pairlament | |
| Scots Pairlament | |
Dunbar is a toun in East Lowden on the sootheast coast o Scotland, approximately 28 mile east o Edinburgh an 28 mile frae the Inglis Mairch at Berwick Upon Tweed. It haes a population o aboot 12,000 (2001 census).
Dunbar is an umwhile Ryal Burgh that gien its name tae an ecclesiastical an ceevil pairish. The pairish extends aroond 7½ mile east tae wast an is 3½ mile deep at greatest extent (12 x 5.5 kilometres) or 11¼ square miles (c. 3000 hectares) an conteens the veelages o Wast Barns, Belhaven, East Barns (abandoned) an several hamlets an ferms.
Its strategic poseetion gien rise tae a history full o incident an strife but Dunbar haes become a quate dormitory toun popular wi wirkers in nearby Edinburgh, wha find it an affordable alternative tae the caipital itsel. Till the 1960s the population o the toun wis little mair nor 3,500.
The toun is serred bi Dunbar railwey station. Dunbar is hame tae the Dunbar Lifeboat Station, the seicont auldest RNLI station in Scotland.
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ "na h-Alba ~ Gaelic Place-names of Scotland". Archived frae the original on 12 October 2017. Retrieved 1 November 2017.
- ↑ "Dunbar Locality 2010". Scotland's Census. 29 Apryle 2001. Retrieved 2 September 2008.
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