Eyemouth

Eyemouth is a burgh in the Scottish Borders, with a population of around 3,500 people. The fishing port celebrates an annual Herring Queen Festival and Seafood Festival, while the Eyemouth Tapestry commemorates the fishing disaster in 1881 when a storm killed 129 people in the town. Notable buildings in the town include Gunsgreen House and a cemetery watch house built to stand guard against body snatchers.

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The town is named by its location, the mouth of the River Eye.

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In 1997, Eyemouth was giving EU funding as a result of a scheme to regenerate declining fishing villages. The new harbour caters for most types of fishery activity and as a result Eyemouth's primary industry has seen a certain amount of rejuvenation.

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Scottish Borders: Scottish Borders (Cr?ochan na h-Alba in Gaelic) is one of 32 unitary council regions in Scotland. It borders onto Dumfries and Galloway in the west, South Lanarkshire in the north west, East Lothian, Midlothian both to the north, and the county of Northumberland in England to the south. The administ...

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