Haddington
The Royal Burgh of Haddington is a town in East Lothian, Scotland. It is the major management, cultural and geographical centre for East Lothian, which as a result of late-nineteenth century Scottish local government reforms took the type of the county of Haddingtonshire for the period from 1889-1921. It lies about 17 miles (27 kilometres) eastern of Edinburgh. The name Haddington is Anglo-Saxon, dating from the 6th or seventh century AD when the location was included into the kingdom of Bernicia. The community, like the remainder of the Lothian region, was delivered by King Edgar of England and entered into Scotland in the tenth century. Haddington received burghal condition, one of the earliest to do so, throughout the regime of David I (1124-- 1153), offering it trading legal rights which motivated its growth into a market community. Today Haddington is a town with a population of fewer than 10,000 people; although throughout the High Middle Ages, it was the fourth-biggest city in Scotland after Aberdeen, Roxburgh and also Edinburgh. In the middle of the community is the Town hall, constructed in 1748 according to a strategy by William Adam. When initially constructed, it inheld a council chamber, jail and constable court, to which assembly rooms were included 1788, and also a brand-new appear 1835. Close-by is the Corn Exchange (1854) as well as the County Courthouse (1833 ). Other nearby significant sites include the Jane Welsh Carlyle House, Mitchell's Close and the birth place of writer as well as federal government reformer Samuel Smiles on the High Street, noted by a commemorative plaque.
