Biel is a village in East Lothian, Scotland, UK, to the south of Dunbar, off the B6370 road. A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet, but smaller than a Town or City. East Lothian ( Lodainn an Ear in Gaelic) is one of 32 Unitary council areas in Scotland, and a lieutenancy Area. Scotland ( Gaelic: Alba) is a Country in northwest Europethat occupies the northern third of the island of Great Britain. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located Dunbar is a town in East Lothian on the southeast coast of Scotland, approximately 30 miles east of Edinburgh and 28 miles from the English Border
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Placename
The word 'biel', 'beil' or 'bel' means "shelter", as in Belton, Belhaven, Bilsdean, or as in Robert Lauder of Beilmouth. Sir Robert Lauder of Beilmouth, Knt (d June 24, 1709) was an Armiger, lawyer and Clerk of Exchequer in Scotland.
History
Archaeologists from Glasgow University found the remains of a small farmstead over 2000 years old, possibly with a palisade surrounding a roundhouse. The University of Glasgow (Oilthigh Ghlaschu was founded in 1451 in Glasgow, Scotland and along with its contemporary institutions the University of St Andrews palisade is a steel or wooden Fence or wall of variable height usually used as a defensive structure A roundhouse is a building used by railroads for servicing Locomotives Roundhouses are large circular or semicircular structures that were traditionally located surrounding
The Biel estate was originally owned by the Earls of Dunbar, then by Robert Lauder of The Bass. The title Earl of Dunbar, also called Earl of Lothian or Earl of March, was a the head of a comital lordship in south-eastern Scotland between the early Sir Robert Lauder of The Bass, (born before 1440 - died just before February 1508 was a Scottish knight Armiger, and Governor of the Castle at Berwick-upon-Tweed Sir James Hamilton, Sheriff of Lanark, bought Biel in 1641. Lanark is a small town in the Central belt of Scotland. Its population of 8253 makes it the 100th largest settlement in Scotland
William Hamilton Nisbet succeeded to the Biel lands and made Biel House his residence. It is a 12th century tower house, off the B6370, and a member of the Historic Houses Association. A tower house is a particular type of stone structure built for defensive purposes as well as habitation. The Historic Houses Association is a British non profit organisation concerned with the preservation of privately owned Country houses Anyone who owns a qualifying
Biel House
The present Biel House is a 16th century three-storey listed building, formerly owned by the Earls of Belhaven. William Atkinson extended it in 1814-1818, and in the early twentieth century, further interior alterations were made by R. R. Anderson. The grounds include a chapel, rock garden, doocot, summerhouse, gatepiers, deer park, woodland, arboretum, kitchen garden, glasshouses. A chapel is a holy place or area of Worship for Christians, which may be attached to an institution such as a large church, a College, a A rock garden, also known as a rockery or an alpine garden, is a type of Garden that features extensive use of rocks or stones along A dovecote or dovecot is a building intended to house Pigeons or Doves which were an important food source in history Ecologically a woodland is an area covered in trees differentiated from a Forest. An arboretum is a collection of trees Related collections include a fruticetum (from the Latin frutex, meaning shrub and a viticetum a collection of vines The traditional kitchen garden, also known as a potager is a seasonally used space separate from the rest of the residential garden - the ornamental plants and lawn areas Glasshouses is a small village in Nidderdale, North Yorkshire, England.
Biel Water (Biel Burn)
The Biel Water, locally known as the Biel Burn, flows through the Biel Estate, and Biel Mill is situated in a woodland.
The Biel Burn Flood of 1948 is still remembered by local residents. Year 1948 ( MCMXLVIII) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the 1948 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The latest flooding incident occurred in 2007. A flood is an overflow of an expanse of water that submerges land a deluge
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- Biel, East Lothian is at coordinates Coordinates:
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