Château d'Auldhame

Le château d'Auldhame est une tour en forme de L en ruine située sur une crête au-dessus de la plage de Seacliff, à environ 6 kilomètres à l'est de North Berwick à East Lothian et à moins d'un kilomètre du Château de Tantallon. Le château a été construit au 16e siècle, probablement par Adam Otterburn de Reidhall, Lord Provost d'Édimbourg. Il se compose d'un bloc principal de trois étages avec une tour d'escalier en saillie. Une partie du sous-sol voûté est toujours existant, mais la plupart des étages supérieurs sont aujourd'hui détruits. Un des trois cadavres supposés de Baldred aurait été enterré sur le site en 756.

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Seacliff

Seacliff comprises a beach, an estate and a harbour. It lies 4 miles (6 kilometres) east of North Berwick, East Lothian, Scotland.

Auldhame Castle

Auldhame Castle is a ruined L-plan tower house standing on a ridge above Seacliff beach, about 3 miles east of North Berwick in East Lothian, and less than half a mile from Tantallon Castle.

Auldhame & Scoughall

Auldhame and Scoughall are hamlets in East Lothian, Scotland. They are close to the town of North Berwick and the village of Whitekirk, and are approximately 25 miles (40 km) east of Edinburgh.

Canty Bay

Canty Bay is a small inlet and coastal hamlet on the northern coast of East Lothian, Scotland. It is 2 miles (3.2 km) east of North Berwick and is opposite the Bass Rock and Tantallon Castle. Other settlements nearby include Auldhame, Scoughall, Seacliff, and the Peffer Sands. Canty Bay means "bay of the little head" from the Gaelic ceanntan, diminutive of ceann. The Glen Golf Club is close to its western side, and to the east there are high coastal cliffs. There are two beaches separated by a rocky headland. The western beach is uninhabited and accessible by two paths that descend the grass-covered cliffs from the eastern end of the Glen golf course. The eastern beach is by the hamlet. This former fishing hamlet has been immortalised by William McGonagall in his poem Beautiful North Berwick and its surroundings. The Canty Bay Inn offered hospitality to the tourists who came to see the Bass Rock. The tenant of the Rock was usually also the innkeeper. The William Edgar Evans Charitable Trust maintains a house and two cottages for use by Scout and Guide troops. Dolphins can be seen at Canty Bay and from the Scottish Seabird Centre.

Bass Rock Lighthouse

The Bass Rock Lighthouse on Bass Rock is a 20-metre (66 ft) lighthouse, built in 1902 by David Stevenson, who demolished the 13th-century keep, or governor's house, and some other buildings within the castle for the stone. The commissioners of the Northern Lighthouse Board decided that a lighthouse should be erected on the Bass Rock in July 1897 along with another light at Barns Ness near Dunbar. The cost of constructing the Bass Rock light was £8,087, a light first being shone from the rock on the evening of 1 November 1902. It has been unmanned since 1988 and is remotely monitored from the board's headquarters in Edinburgh. Until the automation the lighthouse was lit by incandescent gas obtained from vaporised paraffin oil converted into a bunsen gas for heating a mantle. Since that time a new biform ML300 synchronised bifilament 20-watt electric lamp has been used.