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 local government reforms took the kind 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 sixth or 7th century AD when the area was integrated into the kingdom of Bernicia. The community, like the rest of the Lothian region, was ceded by King Edgar of England and also entered into Scotland in the tenth century. Haddington received burghal condition, one of the earliest to do so, during the reign of David I (1124-- 1153), providing it trading legal rights which urged its growth right into a market town. Today Haddington is a small town with a population of fewer 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 House, built in 1748 according to a strategy by William Adam. When initially developed, it inheld a council chamber, jail 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) as well as the Court (1833 ). Various other close-by noteworthy websites include the Jane Welsh Carlyle House, Mitchell's Close and also the native home of writer and government reformer Samuel Smiles on the High Street, noted by a celebratory plaque.
