23 Oct
Surveyor | Home Buyer Survey
Haddington - EH41
Enquiry from: Trudi C
Start Date: 1 to 3 months
landlord - present at appointment and paying for works EPC survey required for rented property time scale - immediate please call to appoint *
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 city government reforms took the form of the area of Haddingtonshire for the period from 1889-1921. It exists regarding 17 miles (27 km) eastern of Edinburgh. The name Haddington is Anglo-Saxon, dating from the 6th or 7th century AD when the area was included into the kingdom of Bernicia. The community, 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 got burghal condition, among the earliest to do so, during the regime of David I (1124-- 1153), offering it trading legal rights which motivated its growth into a market community. Today Haddington is a small town with a population of less than 10,000 individuals; although throughout the High Middle Ages, it was the fourth-biggest city in Scotland after Aberdeen, Roxburgh and Edinburgh. In the middle of the town is the Town House, constructed in 1748 according to a strategy by William Adam. When first developed, it inheld a council chamber, prison and also sheriff court, to which assembly rooms were included 1788, and also a brand-new clock in 1835. Close-by is the Corn Exchange (1854) and also the County Courthouse (1833 ). Various other close-by noteworthy websites consist of the Jane Welsh Carlyle House, Mitchell's Close as well as the birth place of author and also government reformer Samuel Smiles on the High Street, marked by a commemorative plaque.
