Haddington
The Royal Burgh of Haddington is a community in East Lothian, Scotland. It is the primary administrative, cultural and geographical centre for East Lothian, which as a result of late-nineteenth century Scottish city government reforms took the type of the area of Haddingtonshire for the period from 1889-1921. It lies about 17 miles (27 kilometres) east of Edinburgh. The name Haddington is Anglo-Saxon, dating from the sixth or seventh century AD when the location was integrated right into the kingdom of Bernicia. The town, like the remainder of the Lothian area, was delivered by King Edgar of England and entered into Scotland in the tenth century. Haddington obtained burghal condition, among the earliest to do so, during the regime of David I (1124-- 1153), providing it trading civil liberties which motivated its development into a market community. Today Haddington is a village with a population of less than 10,000 people; although during the High Middle Ages, it was the fourth-biggest city in Scotland after Aberdeen, Roxburgh as well as Edinburgh. In the middle of the town is the Town hall, built in 1748 according to a strategy by William Adam. When first constructed, it inheld a council chamber, prison as well as sheriff court, to which assembly rooms were included 1788, as well as a new clock in 1835. Close-by is the Corn Exchange (1854) as well as the Court (1833 ). Other nearby notable sites consist of the Jane Welsh Carlyle House, Mitchell's Close and the birth place of author and government reformer Samuel Smiles on the High Street, noted by a commemorative plaque.