Cove
The community of Cove, initially "Quhyte Cove" or White Cove, later to be called simply Cove, is centred around the planned hamlet built, from the 19th century onwards, by the Halls of Dunglass, for tenant fisher-folk, who used what was a natural harbour. The hamlet they created is a good example of a "heugh-held" or cliff-top settlement and overlooks Lidster's Bay, an SSSI containing rare fossilised flowers and plants from the carboniferous period.
In addition, a small community has grown around Cove Farm and the Cove Farm cottages, is approximately 400 metres from the hamlet. This settlement is known locally as 'New Cove'.
	Many of the original residents of Cove moved from less favoured harbours at Bilsdean and Redheugh to live in the planned hamlet. Between 1831 and 1834, Lady Hall paid for construction of a purpose built harbour below the hamlet to capitalise on the rich catches of herring and mackerel and a thriving smokehouse (now a residence) was built at the harbour.
However, given the decline in herring fishing, exacerbated by the loss of 12 fishermen from the village in the great fishing disaster of 1881, today the hamlet is home to just 45 people, despite new house building, with many houses used as second homes, where once a thriving community of approximately 120 used to live prior to the disaster.
Due to the rapid decline in the fishing industry (there are just two inshore lobster boats left in operation), the harbour which can be reached by a right of way through an eerie tunnel through red sandstone cliffs, has remained largely unaltered from its first construction. Today, after its sale by Borders Regional Council, the harbour is privately owned and maintained by Cove Harbour Conservation Ltd and has been allowed to be used for filming to raise revenue for its upkeep. During the war, an early warning low-level radar station was positioned at RAF Cockburnspath, at Cove, which, late in the War became a POW camp for Luftwaffe prisoners, among others. Little remains of his site today, except some ruins of gun emplacments and a dry flat parade square now covered by grass. However a white signal mast is still visible on the Southern Upland Way, between Cove and Pease Bay.
Because of the beauty of the seascapes and scenery around Cockburnspath, the area has played host to a notable colony of artists, supported by the benevolence of patrons of the arts Lord and Lady Hall of Dunglass.
The most famous residents were Sir James Guthrie and his fellow ‘Glasgow Boys’ who were at the forefront of fine art in the late 19th century, but even today several professional an many amateur artists live in the area and many of their works can be seen and/or bought at the annual Summer art exhibition and sale in the Church Hall.