Haddington
The Royal Burgh of Haddington is a town in East Lothian, Scotland. It is the major management, social and geographical centre for East Lothian, which as a result of late-nineteenth century Scottish local government reforms took the type of the area of Haddingtonshire for the period from 1889-1921. It exists about 17 miles (27 km) east of Edinburgh. The name Haddington is Anglo-Saxon, dating from the sixth or seventh century AD when the area was integrated into the kingdom of Bernicia. The community, like the rest of the Lothian region, was ceded by King Edgar of England and became part of Scotland in the tenth century. Haddington received burghal standing, among the earliest to do so, throughout the regime of David I (1124-- 1153), giving it trading rights which urged its growth right into a market community. Today Haddington is a small town with a population of less than 10,000 individuals; although during the High Middle Ages, it was the fourth-biggest city in Scotland after Aberdeen, Roxburgh and Edinburgh. In the middle of the community is the Town House, constructed in 1748 according to a strategy by William Adam. When first built, it inheld a council chamber, prison and sheriff court, to which assembly rooms were included 1788, and also a new appear 1835. Nearby is the Corn Exchange (1854) and also the Court (1833 ). Other neighboring remarkable sites consist of the Jane Welsh Carlyle House, Mitchell's Close and the birth place of author and also federal government reformer Samuel Smiles on the High Street, noted by a commemorative plaque.