Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Barns, East and West

Barns, East and West, two villages in Dunbar parish, Haddingtonshire, near the North British railway, 2 and 2¾ miles WSW of Dunbar town, under which West Barns has a post office. Their public schools, with respective accommodation for 107 and 200 children, had (1879) an average attendance of 91 and 93, and grants of £75,10s. 6d. and £69,10s.


(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)

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Feature Description: "two villages"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Dunbar ScoP       East Lothian ScoCnty

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