Biel Water

Biel Mill on the Biel Water

The Biel Water is a river running through East Lothian. It beautifies the Biel Estate by the village of Biel.

The waters originate on Lammermuir, on the slopes of Clints Dod on Dunbar Common, from which runs a burn named Thorter Burn which becomes the Whittinghame Water. The Biel as such and by that name begins from the junction of the Whittinghame Water with the Luggate Burn at Ruchlaw Mains.

From the Luggate Burn, the Biel runs through the Biel Estate, at Bielmill, Bielhill and Biel. Below the estate the river turns northwest for a mile and a half before passing beneath the A1 and the main railway line and thence to West Barns and into Belhaven Bay, with its rather unusual bridge, just west of Dunbar.

Pictures

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  New crossing at Biel Water, flood relief
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  The Bridge at Biel Water, Belhaven

Outside links

• RCAHMS record of Biel Mill Bridge
• An Iron Age cist at North Belton Farm

References

• The floods of 12 August 1948, in South-East Scotland, Author: A. T. A. Learmonth, publ. in Scottish Geographical Journal, Volume 66, Issue 3 and 4 December 1950, pages 147 - 153