Haddington
The Royal Burgh of Haddington is a town in East Lothian, Scotland. It is the primary management, social 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 concerning 17 miles (27 km) eastern of Edinburgh. The name Haddington is Anglo-Saxon, dating from the 6th or seventh century AD when the location was included right into the kingdom of Bernicia. The community, like the remainder of the Lothian region, was delivered by King Edgar of England and also entered into Scotland in the tenth century. Haddington got burghal condition, one of the earliest to do so, during the power of David I (1124-- 1153), offering it trading civil liberties which motivated its development into a market town. Today Haddington is a village with a population of fewer than 10,000 individuals; although throughout 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 plan by William Adam. When first constructed, it inheld a council chamber, jail and also sheriff 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 ). Various other nearby notable sites consist of the Jane Welsh Carlyle House, Mitchell's Close and the birthplace of author and federal government reformer Samuel Smiles on the High Street, noted by a commemorative plaque.
