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Haddington
The Royal Burgh of Haddington is a community in East Lothian, Scotland. It is the major management, cultural 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 for the period from 1889-1921. It lies concerning 17 miles (27 km) eastern of Edinburgh. The name Haddington is Anglo-Saxon, dating from the sixth or seventh century AD when the area was integrated into the kingdom of Bernicia. The community, like the remainder of the Lothian region, was delivered by King Edgar of England as well as entered into Scotland in the tenth century. Haddington received burghal condition, one of the earliest to do so, during the reign of David I (1124-- 1153), offering it trading rights which encouraged its development into a market town. Today Haddington is a village 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 town is the Town House, built in 1748 according to a strategy by William Adam. When initially developed, it inheld a council chamber, jail and sheriff court, to which assembly rooms were added in 1788, and also a new appear 1835. Close-by is the Corn Exchange (1854) and also the County Courthouse (1833 ). Various other close-by remarkable sites include the Jane Welsh Carlyle House, Mitchell's Close as well as the native home of author and government reformer Samuel Smiles on the High Street, noted by a celebratory plaque.