Dunbar
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Dunbar is a town on the North Sea coast in East Lothian in the south-east of Scotland, approximately 30 miles east of Edinburgh and 30 miles from the English border north of Berwick-upon-Tweed. The to
Dunbar Town House and mercat cross, High Street
Castle at Dunbar Harbour
Dunbar Grammar School
Ordnance Survey Tide Gauge House, Dunbar Harbour
Cuthbert
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Cuthbert was a saint of the early Northumbrian church in the Celtic tradition. He was a monk, bishop and hermit, associated with the monasteries of Melrose and Lindisfarne in the Kingdom of Northumbri
Dunbar
…east of Spott roundabout and at the swimming pool, which indicates a settlement existed during this time. The influential Northumbrian monk and scholar St Cuthbert, born around 630, was probably from around Dunbar: while still a boy, and employed as a shepherd, one night he had a vision of the soul of Saint Aidan…
Cuthbert discovers a piece of timber, from a 12th-century manuscript of Bede's Life of St Cuthbert
12th-century wall-painting of St Cuthbert in Durham Cathedral
Cuthbert meets Ælfflæd of Whitby on Coquet Island, Bede's Life of Cuthbert, 12th century
The front cover of the St Cuthbert Gospel of St John, recovered from his coffin; the original tooled red goatskin binding is the earliest surviving Western binding.