West Barns is a small village in
East Lothian
East Lothian (; sco, East Lowden; gd, Lodainn an Ear) is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland, as well as a historic county, registration county and lieutenancy area. The county was called Haddingtonshire until 1921.
In 1975, the histo ...
, Scotland.
It lies 2 miles west 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 ...
and approximately 28 miles east of
Edinburgh
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. It is close to
John Muir
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Country Park
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United Kingdom
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and Belhaven Bay. For many years, it was home to the West Barns Inn and is still home to the West Barns Bowling Club. It was home to a major
John Deere
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farm machinery dealership, that moved to
Haddington in 2017, the site being taken over by the Thistly Cross Cider Company.
There is also a local amateur football team, West Barns Star. Children of primary-school age attend West Barns Primary, after which they will go to Dunbar Grammar School.
References
External links
Canmore - West Barns Mains (Neolithic) site recordCanmore - West Barns, Edinburgh Road, Distillery site record
Villages in East Lothian
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