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Cove, a fishing hamlet in Cockburnspath parish, Berwickshire, 3 furlongs E of Cockburnspath station. Its harbour, 3 furlongs further to the eastward, is approached through a sloping tunnel, which, hewn out of soft rock, is 65 yards long, and just wide enough to admit a horse and cart; it has a pier for fishing-boats on a little bay, surrounded by cliffs 100 to 200 feet in height. The hamlet, consisting of little more than a score of one-story cottages, had a fishing population of 21, of whom no fewer than 11 perished, within ½ mile of home, in the disastrous gale of 14 Oct. 1881.
(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)
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| Feature Description: | "a fishing hamlet" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Cockburnspath ScoP Berwickshire ScoCnty |
| Place: | Cove |
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