Dunbar

Dunbar
Scots Gaelic: *Dùn Bàrr^[1]*
Inglis: *Dunbar*
Dunbar Scots Gaelic: Dùn Bàrr; Inglis: Dunbar;
	; Tolbooth an mercat cross, Dunbar High Street
	Dunbar Location within East Lowden
Population	8,486 (2011 census)
OS grid reference	NT678789
Cooncil area	East Lowden;
Lieutenancy area	East Lowden;
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	East Lowden;
Scots Pairlament	East Lowden;
	Leet o places UK Scotland 56°00′10″N 2°31′01″W / 56.002725°N 2.516901°WCoordinates: 56°00′10″N 2°31′01″W / 56.002725°N 2.516901°W

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 gied its name tae an ecclesiastical an civil pairish. The pairish extends aroond 7½ mile east tae wast an is 3½ mile deep at greatest extent (12 x 5.5 kilometre) or 11¼ square mile (c. 3000 hectare) an haes the veelages o Wast Barns, Belhaven, East Barns (abandoned) an seevral hamlets an ferms.

Its strategic poseetion gied rise tae a history ful o incident an strife but Dunbar haes become a quate dormitory toun kenspeckle 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

↑ "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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[1] "na h-Alba ~ Gaelic Place-names of Scotland". Archived frae the original on 12 October 2017. Retrieved 1 November 2017.

[2] "Dunbar Locality 2010". Scotland's Census. 29 Apryle 2001. Retrieved 2 September 2008.

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