Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Broxmouth

Broxmouth, hamlet, on E. coast of Haddingtonshire, at mouth of Broxburn river, 1½ mile SE. of Dunbar. Broxmouth Park is a seat of the Duke of Roxburghe. On the low ground to the W. Cromwell defeated the Scottish army under Leslie (1650).


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "hamlet"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: East Lothian ScoCnty
Place: Broxmouth

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