Haddington
The Royal Burgh of Haddington is a community in East Lothian, Scotland. It is the main administrative, social and also geographical centre for East Lothian, which as a result of late-nineteenth century Scottish local government reforms took the kind of the region of Haddingtonshire for the period from 1889-1921. It exists about 17 miles (27 kilometres) eastern of Edinburgh. The name Haddington is Anglo-Saxon, dating from the 6th or seventh century AD when the area was included into the kingdom of Bernicia. The town, like the remainder of the Lothian region, was yielded by King Edgar of England as well as became part of Scotland in the tenth century. Haddington obtained burghal status, among the earliest to do so, during the reign of David I (1124-- 1153), giving it trading legal rights which encouraged its growth into a market community. Today Haddington is a town 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 and Edinburgh. In the middle of the community is the Town hall, constructed in 1748 according to a plan by William Adam. When first developed, it inheld a council chamber, jail and also sheriff court, to which assembly rooms were added in 1788, as well as a new appear 1835. Nearby is the Corn Exchange (1854) as well as the Court (1833 ). Various other neighboring remarkable sites include the Jane Welsh Carlyle House, Mitchell's Close and also the birthplace of writer and also federal government reformer Samuel Smiles on the High Street, marked by a celebratory plaque.
