Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Haddington. You may be able to find further references to Haddington in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place	Type of entry	Source
Haddington	a royal and parliamentary burgh and a parish	Groome

This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Haddington.

Place	Type of entry	Source
Abbey	a small village, with the site of a Cistercian nunnery	Groome
Alderston	an estate, with a mansion	Groome
Clerkington	an estate, with a mansion	Groome
Dobson's Well	a weak chalybeate spring	Groome
Huntington House	a mansion	Groome
Lennoxlove	a seat	Groome
Letham House	a mansion	Groome
Monkrigg	an estate, with an elegant modern mansion	Groome
Stevenson	a mansion	Groome

Travel writing

This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Haddington within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.

Traveller	Section	No. of Refs.
William Camden	Scotland: South of the Antonine Wall	4
Daniel Defoe	Letter 11: South-Eastern Scotland	4
William Camden	Scotland: North of the Antonine Wall	1
John Wesley	1763-4: In Scotland Again; Methodist's Wealth; "No Law for Methodists"; Exhausting Days	1

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place	Mentioned in Travel Writing	Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer
Bolton	0	2
Morham	0	2
Athelstaneford	1	2
Drem	0	2
Gladsmuir	0	2
Gifford	0	2
Penston	0	1
Prestonkirk	0	2
Saltoun	0	2
Longniddry	0	2
Aberlady	0	2
Garvald	0	2
Pencaitland	0	2
East Linton	0	3
Yester	12	2
Whittinghame	0	2
Smeaton	0	2
Gullane	0	2
Seton	0	2
Dirleton	2	2