28 Feb
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Haddington - EH41
Enquiry from: Emma A
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double glazed bedroom window that has a large crack on the inside pain.
Haddington
The Royal Burgh of Haddington is a community in East Lothian, Scotland. It is the major management, social and also geographical centre for East Lothian, which as a result of late-nineteenth century Scottish local government reforms took the type of the region of Haddingtonshire through from 1889-1921. It exists about 17 miles (27 km) 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 community, like the rest of the Lothian area, was ceded by King Edgar of England and entered into Scotland in the tenth century. Haddington obtained burghal condition, among the earliest to do so, during the power of David I (1124-- 1153), giving it trading civil liberties which motivated its growth right into a market community. Today Haddington is a small town with a population of less 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, built in 1748 according to a plan by William Adam. When initially constructed, it inheld a council chamber, jail and constable court, to which assembly rooms were included 1788, and a new appear 1835. Nearby is the Corn Exchange (1854) and the Court (1833 ). Various other close-by notable sites include the Jane Welsh Carlyle House, Mitchell's Close and the native home of writer and also federal government reformer Samuel Smiles on the High Street, noted by a commemorative plaque.
