Broxburn is a
hamlet
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consisting of a handful of scattered houses which serve the Broxmouth
estate in
East Lothian, Scotland. It is named after the stream upon which it stands, the Brox Burn. It lies about south-east of
Dunbar
Dunbar () is a town on the North Sea coast in East Lothian in the south-east of Scotland, approximately east of Edinburgh and from the English border north of Berwick-upon-Tweed.
Dunbar is a former royal burgh, and gave its name to an ecc ...
. On the Brox Burn is Brand's Mill, dating from mediaeval times. The
Battle of Dunbar, on 3 September 1650, took place on the foothills directly south, halfway between Brand's Mill and the hamlet of Little Pinkerton.
Not to be confused with the larger town of
Broxburn, West Lothian
Broxburn ( gd, Srath Bhroc, IPA: ˆs̪ɾaˈvɾɔʰk is a town in West Lothian, Scotland, on the A89 road, from the West End of Edinburgh, from Edinburgh Airport and to the north of Livingston.
Etymology
The name Broxburn is a corruption ...
.
See also
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List of places in East Lothian
''Map of places in East Lothian compiled from this list''
The List of places in East Lothian is a list for any town, village, hamlet, castle, golf course, historic house, hill fort, lighthouse, nature reserve, reservoir, river, and other place of ...
External links
Broxburn
Villages in East Lothian
History of East Lothian
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