Eastbarns

Eastbarns
   EASTBARNS, a village, in the parish of Dunbar, county of Haddington, 3 miles (S. E.by E.) from Dunbar; containing 125 inhabitants. It is situated near the coast of the German Sea, in the eastern extremity of the parish, and is distant from Westbarns, a more populous village, about five miles. There was a Burgher meeting-house here till the year 1820, when the congregation removed to the town of Dunbar; and one of the parochial schools is still fixed at this place.

A Topographical dictionary of Scotland. . 1856.

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