Cockburnspath & Covevillage · coast · history
Photo collection

Village, coast
& archive.

This gallery contains nine photographs of the village and coast, including two historical views of the former station. Each image includes its creator, source and licence details.

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Each photograph may be reused under the Creative Commons terms shown with it. Attribution is required, and adaptations must follow the relevant share-alike licence.

A wide view from the cliff above Cove Harbour, showing the small sandy inlet, rock shelves and North Sea.
Cove Harbour panorama5 May 2019 · Kognos · CC BY-SA 4.0
Stone cottages built against layered red cliffs beside the rocky shore at Cove Harbour, with a small red boat in the water.
Harbour cottages and red boat, Cove1 January 2020 · Lauren Johnston-Smith · CC BY-SA 4.0
A narrow country lane bordered by cow parsley and hedges, with Cockburnspath visible ahead under a bright summer sky.
Entering Cockburnspath30 June 2011 · Andrew Bowden · CC BY-SA 2.0
The tall stone mercat cross on its stepped base in Cockburnspath square, surrounded by houses and autumn trees.
The mercat cross in the village square5 November 2010 · Jennifer Petrie · CC BY-SA 2.0
Cockburnspath parish church and its round west tower seen across a graveyard on a clear autumn day.
Cockburnspath parish church8 October 2009 · Jennifer Petrie · CC BY-SA 2.0
Weathered red sandstone walls of the ruined Old St Helen’s Church standing in grass with the sea beyond.
Old St Helen’s Church near the coast8 September 2018 · Colin Park · CC BY-SA 2.0
A grassy track of the Southern Upland Way approaching Cockburnspath between hedges and spring greenery.
Southern Upland Way near Cockburnspath18 May 2024 · Dave Kelly · CC BY-SA 2.0
An archival 1988 view over the railway tracks at the former Cockburnspath station, with the station house and North Sea beyond.
Cockburnspath station remains, 198822 June 1988 · Ben Brooksbank · CC BY-SA 2.0
An archival 1997 view of electrified railway tracks curving through trees at the former Cockburnspath station site.
Cockburnspath station site, 19976 July 1997 · Ben Brooksbank · CC BY-SA 2.0
Other collections

More historic images to view online.

These collections add further detail to the village story. They are linked at their original websites because their copyright or reuse terms do not permit the images to be reproduced here.

1900

Cove fishermen

A named group portrait of four fishermen at Cove Harbour, held online by Scotland’s National Gansey Project.

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Early 1900s

John Wood & old postcards

Coldingham’s local archive includes turn-of-the-century village photographs and postcards covering Cockburnspath and Cove.

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1960s

Steam and diesel on the bank

Rail-Online has copyrighted railway photographs showing expresses climbing Cockburnspath Bank and the coastal main line.

View a 1960 train

1880s art

The artists’ colony

Art UK gathers paintings connected with Guthrie, Walton, Crawhall, Henry, Melville and Morton at Cockburnspath.

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