East Linton is a town in East Lothian, Scotland, situated on the River Tyne and A1 road five miles east of Haddington, with a population of 1,774 (Census 2001). East Lothian ( Lodainn an Ear in Gaelic) is one of 32 Unitary council areas in Scotland, and a lieutenancy Area. Scotland ( Gaelic: Alba) is a Country in northwest Europethat occupies the northern third of the island of Great Britain. A mile is a unit of Length, usually used to measure Distance, in a number of different systems including Imperial units United States In Biology a population is the collection of inter-breeding organisms of a particular Species; in Sociology A census is the procedure of acquiring information about every member of a given population Year 2001 ( MMI) was a Common year starting on Monday according to the Gregorian calendar. (In 1881 it had a population of 1,928).
East Linton probably gets its name form the Linn (a waterfall) on the river next to the village, although Martine adds that it was called East Linton to distinguish it from West Linton in Peebleshire. Peeblesshire ( Siorrachd nam Pùballan in Gaelic) the County of Peebles or Tweeddale was a county of Scotland.
Today it has only one active church - Prestonkirk (rebuilt 1770), also the name of the parish, but formally had a free church (St Andrew's), a Roman Catholic church, and a Methodist hall. The clock on St Andrew's former Church was put in by the village to commemorate Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee. A Golden Jubilee is a celebration held to mark a 50th anniversary of a monarch's reign There has long been a school in the town, and the mid-Victorian schoolmaster in East Linton was a George Pringle Smith (d. 1850).
There is a fountain in the town square, which has 4 cherubs and lights on top. A traditional fountain is an arrangement where water issues from a source ( Latin fons) fills a basin of some kind and is drained away CHERUB is a series of young adult books written by the author Robert Muchamore.
Preston Mill, an old watermill, is on the outskirts. This article is about a type of structure For other locational uses see Milldam. There has been a mill on the site since 1599, and it is still working. Attached to the watermill is a kiln, with a cowl of local design. Kilns are thermally insulated chambers or Ovens in which controlled temperature regimes are produced A Cowl is a device used on a Kiln to keep the weather out of and induce a flow of air through the kiln
Following the closure of the railway line to Haddington, the fine Victorian station at East Linton was the next closest for that burgh. That station (only) has now also been closed and is now used as a residence. Prior to the coming of the North British Railway, the mail coaches changed horses at the Douglas Inn, opposite the distillery in East Linton.
Civil engineer John Rennie (1761-1821) was born here. A civil engineer is a person who practices Civil engineering, one of the many engineering professions John Rennie ( 7 June 1761 at Phantassie, near East Linton, East Lothian, Scotland - 4 October 1821 He died at his home in London while working on the London Bridge project, a bridge he designed. The work was completed by his sons, George and Sir John Rennie.
References
- Fourteen Parishes of the County of Haddington, by John Martine, Edinburgh, 1890.
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