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In 1882-4, Frances Groome's Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland described Cove like this:
Cove, a fishing hamlet in Cockburnspath parish, Berwickshire, 3 furlongs E of Cockburnspath station. Its harbour, 3 furlongs further to the eastward, is approached through a sloping tunnel, which, hewn out of soft rock, is 65 yards long, and just wide enough to admit a horse and cart; it has a pier for fishing-boats on a little bay, surrounded by cliffs 100 to 200 feet in height. The hamlet, consisting of little more than a score of one-story cottages, had a fishing population of 21, of whom no fewer than 11 perished, within ½ mile of home, in the disastrous gale of 14 Oct. 1881.
Cove is now part of SCOTTISH BORDERS Council. Click here for graphs and data of how SCOTTISH BORDERS has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Cove itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Cove, in Scottish Borders and Berwickshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/22059
Date accessed: 09th April 2026
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