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4-696: The Biel Water is a river running through the Biel Estate in Biel, East Lothian . It runs for 4.5 kilometres from the Luggate Burn and the Whittinghame Water , via Stenton , Biel House , West Barns , and finally to Belhaven Bay with its rather unusual bridge, whose ends are submerged at high tide. 55°58′25″N 2°36′18″W  /  55.97357°N 2.60507°W  / 55.97357; -2.60507 Biel, East Lothian Biel

8-632: A roundhouse . The Biel estate was originally owned by the Earls of Dunbar , then by Robert Lauder of The Bass . Sir James Hamilton, Sheriff of Lanark , bought Biel in 1641. 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 . The present Biel House

12-466: 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 . The Biel Water , locally known as

16-598: Is a village in East Lothian , Scotland, UK , to the south of Dunbar , off the B6370 road. It is situated on the Biel Estate, close to Biel House . The word 'biel', 'beil' or 'bel' means "shelter", as in Belton, Belhaven , Bilsdean , or as in Robert Lauder of Beilmouth . Archaeologists from Glasgow University found the remains of a small farmstead over 2000 years old, possibly with a palisade surrounding

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