Drem

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Drem
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Old farm buildings and cottages brought back to life as expensive houses
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Drem
Location within Scotland
OS grid reference NT510795
Civil parish
Council area
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Country Scotland
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town NORTH BERWICK
Postcode district EH39
Dialling code 01620
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56°00′22″N2°47′13″W / 56.006°N 2.787°W / 56.006; -2.787

Drem is a small village in East Lothian, Scotland. [1]

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It is approximately 20 miles (32 km) east of Edinburgh and is close to Haddington (to the south), North Berwick (northeast), Dirleton (north) and Gullane (north west). It has a railway station on the Edinburgh to North Berwick line with hourly service between those points and occasional service to Glasgow. The station is the last before the single track North Berwick line branches off the East Coast Main Line.

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Drem Cottages

During World War II, the former West Fenton Aerodrome (later Gullane Aerodrome) became RAF Drem and the Drem Lighting System was developed to assist Spitfire landing. The disused airfield buildings were used to construct component parts of the Forth Road Bridge.

Today some of the outbuildings have become part of the Fenton Barns retail and leisure village and are used as studios by local craftspeople, particularly furniture makers.

Chesters Hill Fort, 1 mile (1.6 km) south of the village, is an example of an Iron Age fort.

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References

  1. M., Munro, David (2006). Scotland : an encyclopedia of places & landscapes. Gittings, B. M. (Bruce M.), Royal Scottish Geographical Society. Glasgow: Collins. p. 162. ISBN   9780004724669. OCLC   225152110.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)