Dunbar is a town on the North Sea coastline in East Lothian in the south-east of Scotland, around 30 miles (48 km) eastern of Edinburgh and also 30 miles (48 km) from the English border north of Berwick-upon-Tweed. Dunbar is a former royal burgh, and also gave its name to an ecclesiastical and also civil parish. The parish expands around 7 1/2 miles (12.1 kilometres) eastern to west and also is 3 1/2 miles (5.6 km) deep at greatest level, or 11 1/4 square miles (29 km2), as well as includes the villages of West Barns, Belhaven, East Barns (deserted) and a number of communities and also farms. Its calculated area triggered a background packed with event and quarrel; but Dunbar has ended up being a peaceful dorm room town prominent with workers in nearby Edinburgh, that locate it a cost effective option to the funding itself. Up until the 1960s, the populace of the community was little more than 3,500. The community is loving one of the most recent population released for the community at 8,486, and also there are many energetic as well as organized housing developments ongoing. There are effectively pertained to primary schools, a senior high school as well as an independent school in the town. The community is offered by Dunbar train station with links to Edinburgh et cetera of Scotland, along with London and terminals along the north-east hallway. Dunbar is home to the Dunbar Lifeboat Station, the second-oldest RNLI terminal in Scotland. Dunbar is the birthplace of the explorer, biologist and also prominent conservationist John Muir. Your house in which Muir was birthed is located on the High Street, as well as has actually been exchanged a gallery. There is likewise a celebratory statuary next to the community clock, and also John Muir Country Park is located to the north-west of the community. The eastern section of the John Muir Way coastal path starts from the harbour. One of the two campuses to Dunbar Primary School: John Muir University, is called in his honour.