Haddington
The Royal Burgh of Haddington is a town in East Lothian, Scotland. It is the main administrative, cultural and geographical centre for East Lothian, which as a result of late-nineteenth century Scottish local government reforms took the form of the county of Haddingtonshire through from 1889-1921. It lies about 17 miles (27 kilometres) east of Edinburgh. The name Haddington is Anglo-Saxon, dating from the 6th or 7th century AD when the location was included right into the kingdom of Bernicia. The community, like the remainder of the Lothian region, was yielded by King Edgar of England as well as entered into Scotland in the tenth century. Haddington obtained burghal condition, among the earliest to do so, throughout the reign of David I (1124-- 1153), giving it trading legal rights which urged its growth into a market community. Today Haddington is a 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 hall, constructed in 1748 according to a strategy by William Adam. When initially built, it inheld a council chamber, jail as well as constable court, to which assembly rooms were included 1788, and a new clock in 1835. Nearby is the Corn Exchange (1854) and the County Courthouse (1833 ). Other close-by remarkable sites consist of the Jane Welsh Carlyle House, Mitchell's Close and the birthplace of writer and government reformer Samuel Smiles on the High Street, marked by a commemorative plaque.
