| Haddington | |
| Scots: Hadentoun | |
  Haddington shown within Scotland |
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| Population | 8,844 |
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| OS grid reference | |
| Council area | East Lothian |
| Lieutenancy area | East Lothian |
| Constituent country | Scotland |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | HADDINGTON |
| Postcode district | EH41 |
| Dialling code | 01620 |
| Police | Lothian and Borders |
| Fire | Lothian and Borders |
| Ambulance | Scottish |
| European Parliament | Scotland |
| UK Parliament | East Lothian |
| Scottish Parliament | East Lothian |
| List of places: UK • Scotland | |
See also: Haddington (disambiguation)
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Although now a small town with a population of less than 9,000, at one time Haddington was the fourth largest city in Scotland, after Aberdeen, Dundee and Edinburgh. Aberdeen ( pronounced; Aiberdeen Obar Dheathain is Scotland 's third most populous city and one of Scotland's 32 local government council Dundee (Dùn Dèagh is the fourth-largest city in Scotland and fully named as Dundee City, one of Scotland's 32 local government council At the centre of the town is the Haddington Town House, originally built in 1748 according to a plan by William Adam which consists of a council chamber, gaol and sheriff court, to which assembly rooms were added in 1788, and a new town clock in 1835. William Adam (1689 &ndash 24 June 1748 was a Scottish Architect, mason, and Entrepreneur. Nearby is the Haddington Corn Exchange (1854) and the County Courthouse (1833). Other notable sites include the Jane Welsh Carlyle House, and Mitchell's Close.
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Commerce
Haddington is located predominantly on the left bank of the River Tyne, and was once famous for its mills. The River Tyne is a River in Scotland, UK. It rises in the Moorfoot Hills in Midlothian near Tynehead to the south of It developed into the fourth largest town in Scotland during the High Middle Ages, and latterly was at the centre of the mid-18th-century Scottish Agricultural Revolution. The High Middle Ages was the period of European history in the 11th 12th and 13th centuries (AD 1000&ndash1299 The Agricultural Revolution in Scotland began in the mid-eighteenth century with the improvements of Scottish Lowlands farmland and the beginning of a transformation of Scottish The Abbey Mill, and the Forrest family's Gimmersmills are both well-known to local historians. Abbey Mill may refer to Abbey Mill Reading Abbey Mill Tewkesbury See also Abbey Mills Another was the New Mills, which, with the Abbey Mill, became the property of cadets of the Hepburn of Waughton family following the Scottish Reformation. There is also places named New Mills in Wales. New Mills is a town in Derbyshire, England approximately 8 miles Sir Patrick Hepburn of Waughton & Lufness, Knt (d Bef November 1649 was a Scottish Laird and notable Covenanter from East Lothian. The Scottish Reformation was Scotland 's formal break with the Roman Catholic Church in 1560 and the events surrounding this Patrick Hepburn in Stevenson had a charter under the Great Seal from James VI of the lands of Newmylnes, at Haddington. James VI and I (19 June 1566 – 27 March 1625 was King of Scotland as James VI, and King of England and King of Ireland as James In his son George's marriage contract Patrick Hepburn settled upon him a long list of properties, including his patrimony - the New Mills. Also included was the Abbey Mill.
In 1641 an Act was passed by the Scottish Parliament to encourage the production of fine cloth, and numerous financial incentives were given. The Scottish Parliament ( Scottish Gaelic: Pàrlamaid na h-Alba; Scots: Scottish Pairlament) is the devlolved national unicameral In 1645 an amendment went through stating that the masters and workers of manufactories would be exempt from military service, and as a result of this factories were established; these included New Mills, or "The Incorporation of the Woollen Manufacture at Newmills in the Shire of Haddington", the promoters of the company being Robert Blackwood, a Director of the Scottish Darien Company and afterwards Master of the Merchant Company of Edinburgh, and Sir James Stanfield, a man of considerable wealth. Baron Dufferin and Claneboye, of Ballyleidy and Killyleagh in County Down is a title in the Peerage of Ireland. The Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies, also called the Scottish Darien Company, was an overseas trading company created by an act of the Parliament of The Company of Merchants of the City of Edinburgh, also known as the Merchant Company of Edinburgh or just the Merchant Company, is a Livery company of Stanfield had acquired the Newmills property near Haddington, the superiority of which had formerly belonged to the local monastery. This factory suffered during the Civil War with the loss of its cloth to General Monk. A civil war is a War between a State and domestic political actors that are in control of some part of the territory claimed by the state But a new charter was drawn up in May 1681, and major capital invested in new machinery, with manufacturing progressing apace. But the New Mills had mixed fortunes, inevitably affected by the lack of protectionism for Scottish manufactured cloth. The Scots Courant reported in 1712 that New Mills was to be 'rouped' (auctioned). The property was sold on 16 February 1713 and the machinery and plant on March 20. The lands of New Mills were purchased by Colonel Francis Charteris and he changed their name to Amisfield. Colonel Francis Charteris, ( baptised 12 January 1672 &ndash February 24 1732) nicknamed "The Rape-Master General" Amisfield is a village in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland
Country houses
In a Haddingtonshire Sasine registered on the 8 August 1792, No. East Lothian ( Lodainn an Ear in Gaelic) is one of 32 Unitary council areas in Scotland, and a lieutenancy Area. 576, Francis Charteris, 7th Earl of Wemyss was seised in the barony of Newmilns, or Amisfield, Haddingtonshire, plus half of the barony of Morham and its lands, plus the grain mill of the monastery of Haddington called Abbey Mill. Francis Wemyss Charteris de jure 7th Earl of Wemyss ( 21 October 1723 &ndash 24 August 1808) was a Scottish peer Morham, East Lothian, sometimes spelt Moram Morum Morhame etc His father, however, had already possessed these properties and in 1756 instructed Isaac Ware to construct Amisfield House, described in The Buildings of Scotland as "the most important building of the orthodox Palladian school in Scotland. PLEASE DO NOT ADD AN INFO BOX TO THIS PAGE --> Palladian architecture is a European style of Architecture derived from the designs of the Italian " John Henderson built the walled garden in 1783, and the castellated stable block in 1785. The park in front of the house, possibly landscaped by James Bowie, is today entirely ploughed. Other parts of the grounds are a golf course. The house was demolished in 1928.
All that remains at Amisfield today are the summer house, walled garden, ice House, Temple, and gates. There is a delightful castellated lodge on the A1 highway.
Lennoxlove House, a mansion based upon a 13th-century tower house lies in its estate half a mile south of the town. Lennoxlove House is a 14th century Historic house set in woodlands half a mile south of Haddington in East Lothian, Scotland. A tower house is a particular type of stone structure built for defensive purposes as well as habitation. Built by the Giffards of Yester, it was originally named Lethington, as evidenced in a sasine granted by Johanna Giffard in her confirmation to Sir Robert Maitland, knt. The Goblin Ha' or Hobgoblin Ha(Goblin Hall, lying 1 1/2 miles south east of the village of Gifford in East Lothian, Scotland, is all that remains , of the lands of Lethington, conforming to the charter granted by Hugo de Giffard to the said Sir Robert, dated at Haddington, 1st December, 1399. It was long home to the Maitland family, notably Sir Richard Maitland, and his son Mary Queen of Scots' Secretary of State, William Maitland of Lethington. Sir Richard Maitland of Lethington and Thirlstane (1496‑ August 1, 1586) was a Senator of the College of Justice, an Ordinary Lord Sir William Maitland of Lethington (1525 &ndash June 9, 1573) was a Scottish politician and reformer and the eldest son of the poet Richard Maitland The Maitlands parted with it in the 17th century. It is now the seat of the Duke of Hamilton and Brandon
Town Centre
The town centre has been protected from "the ravages of re-development" thanks to the foresight of the original County Planning Officer, Frank Tindall who worked in East Lothian from the late 1940s to the mid 1970s. The Dukedom of Hamilton is a title in the Peerage of Scotland created in 1643 the holder is the premier peer of Scotland.
St Mary's Collegiate Church
The parish church of St Mary's today belongs to the Church of Scotland, but includes an Episcopalian chapel called the Lauderdale Aisle, containing the mausoleum of the Earls of Lauderdale. The Collegiate Church of St Mary the Virgin is the Parish Kirk of Haddington East Lothian. In Christianity, a collegiate church is a church where the Daily office of worship is maintained by a College of canons; a non-monastic or The Church of Scotland (Eaglais na h-Alba known informally by its Scots language name The Kirk, is the National church of Scotland. The title Earl of Lauderdale was created in the Peerage of Scotland in 1624 for John 2nd Lord Maitland of Thirlestane Berwickshire. Regarded as one of the three great churches of the Lothians, it is the longest parish church in Scotland and is often used for concerts. It is located next to the massive 12th-century Nungate bridge on a bend of the River Tyne. The River Tyne is a River in England. It is formed by the confluence of two rivers the North Tyne and the South Tyne.
The Garvald red sandstone building was started in 1375 (an earlier St Mary's Church had been destroyed by the English in 1356) and consecrated in 1410, although it was not finished until 1487. Garvald can refer to Garvald East Lothian Garvald Scottish Borders Garvald South Lanarkshire The church was almost destroyed during the 1548-49 Siege of Haddington that followed the Rough Wooing of Henry VIII, and on the advice of John Knox, it was restored “frae the tower to the West door”. The Rough Wooing was a term coined by Sir Walter Scott and H E Henry VIII (28 June 1491 &ndash 28 January 1547 was King of England and Lord of Ireland, later King of Ireland and claimant to the Kingdom of John Knox (c 1510 – 24 November 1572 was a Scottish clergyman and leader of the Protestant Reformation who is considered the founder of the Presbyterian Thus the nave became the church and the choir and transepts were left ruined until the whole church was restored in the 1970s. The organ was built in 1990.
A set of eight bells hung for full circle ringing was installed for the Millennium. A millennium (pl millennia) is a period of Time equal to one thousand Years (from Latin la mille, thousand and la annum
Military
Lying on the direct route of English invaders from the south, the town was burned by forces from across the border in 1216, 1244 and 1355. The great Siege of Haddington, the longest town siege in British history, lasted for 18 months (1547-49) when an occupying English force sent by Henry VIII was besieged by the Scots and their French allies. Henry VIII (28 June 1491 &ndash 28 January 1547 was King of England and Lord of Ireland, later King of Ireland and claimant to the Kingdom of Robert Lauder of The Bass (d. Sir Robert Lauder of The Bass, (born before 1440 - died just before February 1508 was a Scottish knight Armiger, and Governor of the Castle at Berwick-upon-Tweed 1576) is on record (Sir James Balfour of Denmyine's Annals, vol. Sir James Balfour of Denmyine 1st Baronet, (c 1600 &ndash c 1658 of Perth and Kinross, Scotland, Scottish Annalist and Antiquary. 1] as taking prisoner Sir James Wilford, the English Governor of Haddington, in 1548, during a sortie with French soldiers from the castle at Dunbar. Dunbar is a town in East Lothian on the southeast coast of Scotland, approximately 30 miles east of Edinburgh and 28 miles from the English Border
Sport
Football
Haddington is home to the junior football club Haddington Athletic. History Junior football as distinguished from senior football has existed since the early 1880s Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a Team sport played between two teams of eleven players and is widely considered Haddington Athletic FC are a Scottish junior football club based in Haddington, the county town of East Lothian.
Rugby
Haddington is also home to Haddington RFC, the current BT Scotland Premiership Division Three champions. Haddington Rugby Football Club is a Rugby union team based in Haddington, East Lothian. Scottish Hydro Electric Premiership Division Three is one of Scotland 's national Rugby union league divisions and therefore part of the Scottish Hydro Electric Their home pitch is Neilson park.
Twin towns
Miscellaneous
- The world's earliest surviving records of a lodge of free gardeners come from Haddington, in 1676[1]. Aubigny-sur-Nère is a commune in the Cher department in central France. This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. The Order of Free Gardeners is a fraternal society founded in Scotland in the middle of the 17th Century which later spread into England and Ireland.
Famous people from Haddington
- Ada de Warenne, Countess of Northumbria and Huntingdon (1120-1178), Mother of Malcolm IV and William the Lion, Kings of Scots. Ada de Warenne or Adeline de Varenne (c 1120 &ndash 1178 was the Norman-French wife of Henry of Scotland, Earl of Northumbria and Earl Earl of Northumbria was a title in the Anglo-Danish, late Anglo-Saxon, and early Anglo-Norman period in England. Earl of Huntingdon is a title which has been created several times in the Peerage of England. Malcolm IV ( Mediaeval Gaelic: Máel Coluim mac Eanric; Modern Gaelic Maol Chaluim mac Eanraig) nicknamed Virgo, "the Maiden" ( William I ( Mediaeval Gaelic: Uilliam mac Eanric; Modern Gaelic Uilleam mac Eanraig) known as the Lion or Garbh, "the Rough" Founded the Nunnery for which the Nungate is named.
- Alexander II - (1198 – 1249), King of Scotland from 1214 until 1249. Alexander II ( Mediaeval Gaelic: Alaxandair mac Uilliam; Modern Gaelic Alasdair mac Uilleim) (24 August 1198 &ndash 6 July 1249 King of Scots
- John Brown, known as John Brown of Haddington - (1722 – 1787), theologian and author of The Self-interpreting Bible (known as 'Brown's Bible') and A Dictionary of the Holy Bible. John Brown of Haddington (1722 &ndash 19 June[[ 787]] was a Scottish divine and author Became minister in Haddington in 1751 and is buried in the churchyard of St Mary's.
- Samuel Morison Brown - (1817-1856), chemist and writer, grandson of John Brown, born in Haddington. Samuel Morison Brown (February 1817 - September 20, 1856) Scottish chemist poet and essayist born at Haddington East Lothian, was
- Finlay Calder (1957- ) - Scottish rugby player born in Haddington. Finlay ("Fin" Calder was a Scottish rugby player Born on 20 August 1957 at Haddington, East Lothian and educated at
- Jane Welsh Carlyle - (1801-1866), wife of the writer Thomas Carlyle, daughter of a local doctor. Thomas Carlyle (4 December 1795 – 5 February 1881 was a Scottish essayist satirist and historian whose work was highly influential during the Victorian era. She was buried next to her father in the choir of St Mary's Church, at that time still ruined.
- William George Gillies (1898-1973) - painter born in the High Street. Sir William George Gillies (1898 – 1973 was a renowned Scottish landscape and Still life painter. Student and later principal of the Edinburgh College of Art, several of his works are in the Talbot Rice Gallery in the University of Edinburgh. Edinburgh College of Art (ECA is an art school in Edinburgh, Scotland, providing Tertiary education in art and design disciplines for over two thousand The Talbot Rice Gallery is part of the University of Edinburgh, in Scotland and was established in 1975 The University of Edinburgh (Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann founded in 1582 is a renowned centre for teaching and research in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
- John Gray (1646-1717) - preacher, scholar and book collector, was born and died in Haddington. He assembled an important library of early printed books which was sold to the National Library of Scotland in 1961. The National Library of Scotland is the Legal deposit Library of Scotland. Year 1961 ( MCMLXI) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.
- John Knox (1505, 1513 or 1514 – 1572) - great Protestant reformer born (probably in Nungate on the east bank of the River Tyne, opposite St Mary's) and educated in the town. John Knox (c 1510 – 24 November 1572 was a Scottish clergyman and leader of the Protestant Reformation who is considered the founder of the Presbyterian
- James Lauder (d. 1696), M. A. , Sheriff-Clerk, Provost, Commissioner to Parliament, and Commissioner to the Convention of Burghs, and M. P. , for Haddington. On 7 March 1678 a Supplication (application) was made to the Privy Council by James Lauder, Sheriff-Clerk of Haddington, and two colleagues, to establish a stage-coach service between Haddington and Edinburgh, with two coaches, for seven years. In August 1690 he was said to be responsible for the celebrated escape from his house by two prisoners, of the Seton family, because as a Baillie he was required to attend Church.
- John Mair (also known as Haddingtonus Scotus) (1467-1550) - Scottish philosopher, friend of Erasmus and teacher of Calvin, Ignatius Loyola, John Knox, and other Scottish Reformers including the Protestant martyr Patrick Hamilton and the humanist and Latin stylist George Buchanan. John Mair or John Major (also known in Latin as Joannes Majoris and Haddingtonus Scotus) (1467-1550 was a Scottish Philosopher Saint Ignatius redirects here for other Saints see Ignatius. Ignatius of Loyola, also known as Íñigo Oñaz López de Loyola There have been several well-known people named Patrick Hamilton, including Patrick Hamilton of Kincavil, Scottish noble and father of the following George Buchanan (February 1506 - September 28, 1582) was a Scottish Historian and humanist scholar He held many University and government positions.
- Adam Skirving (1719-1803) - song writer, author of the famous Jacobite song Hey, Johnnie Cope, Are Ye Waking Yet?, was born in Haddington, farmed at Garleton, and was buried at Athelstaneford. Adam Skirving (1719 &ndash April 1803 Scottish Song writer, was born in Haddington. Jacobitism was (and to a limited extent remains the political movement dedicated to the restoration of the Stuart kings to the thrones of England, Scotland Athelstaneford is a village in East Lothian, Scotland. It is close to the town of Haddington and lies approximately 20 miles east of Edinburgh
- Samuel Smiles (1812-1904) - social reformer and author of Self Help (1859), lived in the High Street. Samuel Smiles ( 23 December, 1812 &ndash 16 April, 1904) was a Scottish author and reformer
- Willie Wood MBE (1938- ) - bowls player who took part in a record seven Commonwealth Games and won two gold medals was born in Haddington and grew up in nearby Gifford. William "Willie" Wood MBE (b 1938 in Haddington, East Lothian) is a Scottish professional The Commonwealth Games is a multinational Multi-sport event. Held every four years it involves the elite athletes of the Commonwealth of Nations.
Bibliography
- The Records of a Scottish Cloth Manufactory at New Mills, Haddingtonshire edited by W. R. Scott, M. A. , Scottish History Society, Edinburgh, 1905.
- The Register of the Privy Council of Scotland, Third Series, edited by P. The Privy Council of Scotland was a body that advised the King. Hume Brown, M. A. ,LL. D. , volume V, Edinburgh, 1912, p. 381.
- Lost Houses of Scotland, by M. Binney, J. Harris, & E. Winnington, for 'Save Britain's Heritage', London, July 1980. ISBN 0-905978-05-6
- Haddington: Royal Burgh - A History and a Guide, The Haddington History Society, published 1997 by Tuckwell Press Ltd. , ISBN 1-86232-000-4
Notes and references
- ^ Article Origins of Gardener Societies at historyshelf. org. (accessed 18 March 2007)
External links
Haddington: A historical perspective, drawn from the Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Survey of Scottish Topography, Statistical, Biographical and Historical, edited by Francis H. Groome and originally published in parts by Thomas C. Jack, Grange Publishing Works, Edinburgh between 1882 and 1885.
- http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/scotgaz/towns/townhistory278.html
- Haddington Community Council
- Memoirs and Confessions of a County Planning Officer, Frank Tindall, The Pantile Press, 1998 ISBN 0953401308
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