Cockburnspath
The picturesque village of Cockburnspath is the main population centre and focal point for all community and social events.  The village has a growing population estimated at approximately 500 of the 729 total for the community council area. The village contains a number of listed buildings including 'Sparrow Castle', or Manor House of Cockburnspath, below, the oldest surviving residence in the parish and once occupied by the Hume family.
	At one time, the lands of the parish were gifted to Margaret Tudor as a wedding gift upon her marriage to James IV of Scotland, a fact commemorated by the thistle and rose on the Mercat (market) Cross in the village Square today (above).
After many years of effort and a number of unsuccessful funding applications to the National Lottery, Co'path finaly succeeded with an application for £288,551 to the National Lottery and with support from the Robertson Trust, Viridor and others, we have recently seen the demolition of the old hall and completion of our purpose built village hall, which will become the hub of the community.. Co'path is at present a "dry town" and local campaigners are valiantly raising funds to refurbish a derelict shop for use as a public house (see projects).
	The village has an excellent primary school, recently expanded, which is a key community asset, and the school now has over 90 pupils on the school roll, having fallen as low as 36 some ten years ago. the overwhelming majority of local secondary school pupils from the area attend Eyemouth High School.
Where once there was a village Inn (now a house), a butchers, a police station, a railway station (closed in1956), a drapers, a shoe shop, a blacksmith, a general store/ironmongers, and a post office, the advent of the car has meant there is now just one local shop containing a sub-post office, while there is also a part-time doctor's surgery.