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Latitude: 55.873 / 55°52'22"N
Longitude: -2.092 / 2°5'31"W
OS Eastings: 394343
OS Northings: 664433
OS Grid: NT943644
Mapcode National: GBR F0TJ.WJ
Mapcode Global: WH9XX.VN00
Plus Code: 9C7VVWF5+66
Entry Name: Watch House, Old Churchyard, High Street, Eyemouth
Listing Name: High Street and Albert Road Old Churchyard and Watch-House
Listing Date: 9 June 1971
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 372347
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB31142
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Eyemouth, High Street, Old Churchyard, Watch House
ID on this website: 200372347
Location: Eyemouth
County: Scottish Borders
Town: Eyemouth
Electoral Ward: East Berwickshire
Traditional County: Berwickshire
Tagged with: Watch house
Churchyard has recently been cleared of tombstones which have been re-erected against the walls. Memorial in centre to 189 fishermen lost at sea in October 1881. Watch-house: 1849, small building with slated roof, built almost entirely from fragments of tomb-stones, many of them elaborately carved.
Level of Old churchyard was raised 6 feet in 1849 to accommodate victims of the cholera epidemic. B group with Jasmine Cottage item 5.
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