17 Jul
Electric | Testing & Inspection
Haddington - EH41
Enquiry from: Tinashe S
Start Date: Immediate
Needing office equipment tested.
Haddington
The Royal Burgh of Haddington is a community in East Lothian, Scotland. It is the primary administrative, social and geographical centre for East Lothian, which as a result of late-nineteenth century Scottish city government reforms took the type of the county of Haddingtonshire through from 1889-1921. It lies regarding 17 miles (27 km) eastern of Edinburgh. The name Haddington is Anglo-Saxon, dating from the sixth or 7th century AD when the location was integrated right into the kingdom of Bernicia. The town, like the rest of the Lothian region, was delivered by King Edgar of England as well as became part of Scotland in the tenth century. Haddington obtained burghal standing, among the earliest to do so, throughout the regime of David I (1124-- 1153), offering it trading civil liberties which encouraged its development right into a market town. Today Haddington is a small town with a population of less than 10,000 people; although throughout the High Middle Ages, it was the fourth-biggest city in Scotland after Aberdeen, Roxburgh and also Edinburgh. In the middle of the community is the Town House, integrated in 1748 according to a plan by William Adam. When initially built, it inheld a council chamber, jail and constable court, to which assembly rooms were included 1788, and also a brand-new appear 1835. Nearby is the Corn Exchange (1854) and the Court (1833 ). Other nearby notable websites consist of the Jane Welsh Carlyle House, Mitchell's Close as well as the native home of writer and also government reformer Samuel Smiles on the High Street, marked by a commemorative plaque.
