Haddington
the county-town of Haddingtonshire, Scotland, at the S. base of the Lammermuir Hills, on the Tyne, 17 miles E. of Edinburgh. Its Abbey Church, the Lucerna Laudoniæ or "Lamp Decorated red sandstone pile, with a central tower 90 feet high, and ruinous all but the nave, which serves as the parish church.
There are also the county buildings (1833) , the large corn exchange (1854), the the town hall (1748-1831), the county asylum (1866), and a school, the Knox Memorial Institute (1880). Haddington's worthies have been Knox, John Brown Brown and Samuel, his grandson, Samuel Jane Welsh the English endured a great siege by the Smiles, and Jane Welsh Carlyle. Here Ish Carlyle. Here Scotch in 1549. Pop. 4,200.
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