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Haddington, General

Burgh (Medieval), Town (Period Unassigned)

Site Name Haddington, General

Classification Burgh (Medieval), Town (Period Unassigned)

Canmore ID 56573

Site Number NT57SW 79

NGR NT 5128 7389

NGR Description Centred on NT 5128 7389

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council East Lothian
  • Parish Haddington
  • Former Region Lothian
  • Former District East Lothian
  • Former County East Lothian

Archaeology Notes

NT57SW 65 5100 7300 (Centred).

See Burgh Survey.

Already a burgh of David I, Haddington was granted to the countess Ada in a charter of 1152 x 1157. It reverted to the crown on the death of the countess in 1178.

G S Pryde 1965.

Architecture Notes

NMRS REFERENCE:

NMRS - Inventory of the Records of the Crafts of

Haddington by George Murray - text

Inventory to John Warren drawings for Haddington Workhouse - typescript (R6P46)

EXTERNAL REFERENCE:

'Edinburgh Magazine' - March 1800 p.163 Account

NAT. LIB. Salton Papers SB46 1745 - manuscripts

SB65 1747 "

SB77 1751 "

SB81 1754 "

SB86 1756 "

SB88 1757 "

SB99 1763 "

SRO

Building of a riding school.

Contract between Richard Millar merchant in Haddington and John Jack, mason there for building

a riding school on part of the Gallowgreen near the West Port.

1755 GD 214/186

George Somner's House.

John Donaldson 1802 - Survey of west & back elevations: RHP 5557

Activities

Photographic Survey (1943 - 1950)

Photographs of buildings in Haddington, East Lothian, by or on behalf of the National Buildings Record Scottish Council, including photographs by George Scott Moncrieff in 1943 and Stanislaw Tyrowicz 1948-49.

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