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East Lothian
*Aest Lowden* (Scots)
*Lodainn an Ear* (Scottish Gaelic)
East Lothian; Aest Lowden (Scots); Lodainn an Ear (Scottish Gaelic);
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	Coordinates: 55°55′N 2°45′W / 55.917°N 2.750°W / 55.917; -2.750Coordinates: 55°55′N 2°45′W / 55.917°N 2.750°W / 55.917; -2.750;
Admin HQ	Haddington
Government ;
• Body	East Lothian Council
• Control	; Labour minority (council NOC)
• MPs;	; ; Martin Whitfield (Labour); ;
• MSPs;	; ; Colin Beattie; ; Iain Gray; ; ;
Area ;
• Total	262.2 sq mi (679.2 km2)
Area rank	Ranked 18th
Population (mid-2017 est.);
• Total	104,800
• Rank	Ranked 21st
• Density	400/sq mi (154/km2)
ONS code	S12000010
ISO 3166 code	GB-ELN
Website	http://www.eastlothian.gov.uk/

Council area of Scotland

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Place

East Lothian (/ˈloʊðiən/; Scots: Aest Lowden; Scottish Gaelic: Lodainn an Ear), is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland, a historic county, and lieutenancy area.

It borders Edinburgh, Midlothian and the Scottish Borders. Its administrative centre is Haddington, although its largest town is Musselburgh. East Lothian is also the name of a registration county which has the boundaries of the historic county of East Lothian, also known as Haddingtonshire 1889-1921.^[1]

History

The historic county of East Lothian borders those of Midlothian to the west, and Berwickshire to the south.

The council area was created in 1996, replacing the East Lothian district of the Lothian region. The district had been created in 1975 under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973, consisting of the historic county of East Lothian plus the burgh of Musselburgh and the parish of Inveresk (which included Wallyford and Whitecraig) from the historic county of Midlothian.

In November 2017, a county flag competition was launched in East Lothian to register an official flag of East Lothian. Anyone willing to enter this competition was allowed to enter, which resulted in 623 entries to the competition. The end of entry submission time was the 28th of February 2018. Four final flag designs will be placed in a vote to the residents of East Lothian. In December 2018 the winning design was announced, designed by Archie Martin, a local man from Musselburgh and residing in Gifford who had worked for the council for 23 years. Martin died in July 2018. The flag features a saltire representing East Lothian as the birthplace of Scotland's flag. A gold cross signifies the wealth of East Lothian’s farmlands and reputation as the granary of Scotland with a lion in the centre representing the Haddington lion along with blue stripes to represent the rivers Esk and Tyne.

The County Flag of East Lothian

Geography

Orographical Map of East Lothian

Geological Map of Haddingtonshire or East Lothian

Despite its size, the geography of East Lothian is varied. It has 40 miles of coastline where the towns of Musselburgh, Prestonpans, Cockenzie and Port Seton, Gullane, North Berwick and Dunbar lie along the coast of the Firth of Forth. Only two towns are landlocked, Tranent and the old county town Haddington. To the south are the Lammermuir Hills and the boundary with the Scottish Borders. The River Esk runs through Musselburgh where it empties at the north of the town into the Firth of Forth and the River Tyne flows through Haddington and several of East Lothian's villages reaching the Firth of Forth near Belhaven.

Transport

Road

Primary routes

The A1 road travels through East Lothian where it meets the Scottish Borders southbound and Edinburgh northbound. The A1 throughout East Lothian is dual carriageway and major junctions include Dunbar, Haddington, Tranent, Prestonpans and Musselburgh.^[2]

Starting in Leith, the A199 road also travels through East Lothian beginning at Musselburgh and passing through Wallyford, Tranent, Macmerry and Haddington before joining the A1 in West Barns.^[3]

Non-primary routes

Some non-primary routes in East Lothian are the A198, A1087, A6093 and A6137 roads.^[4]

Public transport

Rail

East Lothian is served by seven railway stations: Dunbar, North Berwick, Drem, Longniddry, Prestonpans, Wallyford and Musselburgh. Railway lines which travel through and stop at stations in the county include: The Abeillo North Berwick Line, The CrossCountry line and the London North Eastern Railway London to Edinburgh line.

Bus

East Lothian is well served by bus services. Operators in East Lothian are: Lothian Buses and its subsidiary East Coast Buses, Eve Coaches of Dunbar, Prentice of Haddington and Borders Buses. East Coast Buses is the main bus service provider connecting the towns and villages of East Lothian to Edinburgh. The company has depots in North Berwick and Musselburgh.^[5]

Politics

UK Parliament

The constituency of East Lothian covers the whole county. The current MP for East Lothian is Martin Whitfield.

General Election 2017: East Lothian^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Martin Whitfield	20,158	36.1	+5.1
	SNP	George Kerevan	17,075	30.6	-12.0
	Conservative	Sheila Low	16,540	29.6	+10.1
	Liberal Democrat	Elisabeth Wilson	1,738	3.1	+0.5
	Independent	Mike Allan	367	0.7	+0.4
Majority			3,083	5.5
Turnout			55,878	70.6	-3.6
	Labour gain from SNP		Swing	+8.6

Scottish Parliament

Most of East Lothian is in the East Lothian Scottish Parliament constituency and South Scotland region with the exception of Musselburgh which is in Midlothian North and Musselburgh and the Lothians region.

Local government

East Lothian Council is based at John Muir House, Haddington. East Lothian elects 22 councillors across 6 wards. These wards are:

Ward 1: Musselburgh

Ward 2: Preston, Seton and Gosford

Ward 3: Tranent, Wallyford and Macmerry

Ward 4: North Berwick Coastal

Ward 5: Haddington and Lammermuir

Ward 6: Dunbar and East Linton

Following the 2017 election, the council is composed of the following parties:^[7]

East Lothian Council Election 2017 Results
	Labour	Conservative	SNP
Musselburgh	1	1	2
Preston, Seton & Gosford	2	1	1
Tranent, Wallyford & Macmerry	2	1	1
North Berwick Coastal	1	2	-
Haddington & Lammermuir	2	1	1
Dunbar & East Linton	1	1	1
Total:	9	7	6

Places of interest

Aberlady Bay

Bass Rock

Dirleton Castle

Dunglass Collegiate Church

Fa'side Castle

Fenton Barns Retail & Leisure Village

Hailes Castle

Hopetoun Monument

Lennoxlove historic house

Longniddry Bents

Muirfield Golf Links

Museum of Flight, East Fortune

North Berwick Harbour

North Berwick Law

Preston Mill

Prestongrange Industrial Heritage Museum

Scottish Seabird Centre, North Berwick

Seacliff Beach

Seton Collegiate Church

Tantallon Castle

Chesters Hill Fort

Torness Nuclear Power Station

Traprain Law

Yellowcraigs, a beach and conservation area

Towns and villages

Towns & Villages of East Lothian

Aberlady

Athelstaneford

Auldhame

Ballencrieff

Bolton

Cockenzie

Dirleton

Drem

Dunbar

East Fortune

East Linton

East Saltoun

Elphinstone

Fenton Barns

Garvald

Gifford

Gladsmuir

Glenkinchie

Gullane

Haddington

Humbie

Innerwick

Kingston

Longniddry

Luffness

Macmerry

Musselburgh

North Berwick

Ormiston

Pencaitland

Port Seton

Prestonpans

Samuelston

Scoughall

Spott

Stenton

Tranent

Wallyford

West Barns

West Saltoun

Whitecraig

Whitekirk and Tyninghame

Whittingehame

Civil parishes

East Lothian or Haddingtonshire Civil Parish map.^[8]

In 1894, John Martine published Reminiscences and Notices of Ten Parishes of the County of Haddington.^[9]

1. Aberlady

2. Athelstaneford

3. Bolton

4. Dirleton

5. Dunbar

6. Garvald

7. Gladsmuir

8. Haddington

9. Humbie

10. Innerwick

11. Morham

12. North Berwick

13. Oldhamstocks

14. Ormiston

15. Pencaitland

16. Prestonkirk

17. Prestonpans

18. Saltoun

19. Spott

20. Stenton

21. Tranent

22. Whittingehame

23. Whitekirk and Tyninghame

24. Yester

Notable people from East Lothian

Gospatric II, Earl of Lothian, d.1138

Gospatric III, Earl of Lothian, d.1166

Waltheof, Earl of Dunbar, d.1182

Alexander II, King of Scots, 1198–1249

Black Agnes, 4th Countess of Moray, c.1312-1369

Abbot Walter Bower, ca.1385–1449, canon regular of Inchcolm Abbey, chronicler, born about at Haddington

Sawney Bean, cannibal and outlaw, 15th to 16th century

William Dunbar, medieval poet, 1460–1520

John Mair or Major, philosopher, 1467–1550

John Knox, leading Protestant reformer in Scotland and founder of Presbyterianism, c.1510-1572

John Cockburn of Ormiston, (d.1583) early supporter of the Scottish Reformation

Ninian Cockburn (d.1579), soldier, officer of the Garde Écossaise, political intriguer

Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun (1655–1716), writer, politician, soldier and patriot

Adam Cockburn, Laird of Ormiston, Lord Ormiston (1656–1735), administrator, politician and judge

John Cockburn, agricultural improver, 1695–1758

Andrew Meikle, inventor of the Threshing machine, 1719–1811

John Brown (theologian), 1722–1787

Rev. Dr. John Witherspoon, signatory to the United States Declaration of Independence,1723–1794

George Brodie (1786?-1867), historian

Robert Cadell (1788–1849), bookseller and publisher, closely associated with Sir Walter Scott

Robert Moffat 1795–1883, Congregationalist missionary to Africa, and father in law of David Livingstone

Jane Welsh Carlyle, 1801–1866, letter-writer, and wife of Thomas Carlyle, 1801–1866

Sir William Fergusson, 1st Baronet, surgeon, 1808–1877

Samuel Smiles, author of Self-Help, 1812–1904

Mary Balfour Herbert, watercolour painter, 1817–1893

Samuel Morison Brown, chemist, poet and essayist, 1817–1856

John Muir, father of the US National Parks,1838–1914

Eleanor Mildred Sidgwick, Principal of Newnham College, 1845–1936

James Porteous, inventor of the Fresno Scraper, 1848–1922

Peter Hume Brown, historian, 1849–1918

Arthur Balfour (1848-1930), Prime Minister, 1902–1905

Eleanor Mildred Sidgwick (1845-1936), mathematician and co-founder of Newham College, University of Cambridge

William George Nicholson Geddes 1913–1993, civil engineer

Maureen Mollie Hunter McIlwraith, commonly known as Mollie Hunter 1922-2012, Scottish writer

Peter Kerr b.1940, best-selling author of travel books and fiction

John Bellany, painter, 1942-2013

Rhona Cameron, comedian and activist, b.1965

Sports personalities from East Lothian

Willie Anderson, golfer, four times U.S. Open Golf Champion, 1901, 1903–05

Ian Black, professional footballer

Callum Booth, professional footballer

Billy Brown, football coach

Kenny Miller, professional footballer

Colin Nish, professional footballer

Jim Calder rugby union player

Gary Anderson, Darts player

Andrew Driver, professional footballer

Danny Handling, professional footballer

Jason Holt, Professional footballer

David Huish, professional golfer

Allan Jacobsen, rugby union player

Jim Jefferies, football manager

John McGlynn, football manager

Catriona Matthew, elite golfer

Mathew Dawson, racehorse trainer

Euan Burton, judoka and 2012 Olympics contender

Finlay Calder, rugby union player

Ross Muir, professional snooker player

Scott Murray, rugby union player

Garry O'Connor, professional footballer

Willie Ormond, footballer and manager

Jock Taylor, World Champion motorcycle sidecar racer

Ben Sayers, professional golfer & club maker

John White, footballer

Willie Wood (bowler), professional bowler

Dean Brett, footballer

Josh Taylor, boxer

Local media

East Lothian is served by two local paid-for weekly newspapers, the East Lothian Courier and the East Lothian News. The former, known locally as The Courier, is the better-selling and started in 1859 as the Haddingtonshire Courier (the name was changed in 1971). Some articles from the Haddingtonshire Courier and the Haddingtonshire Advertiser were published in 1883.^[10] The paper was owned and operated by the family firm of D. & J. Croal, based in Haddington, until it was bought by the Dunfermline Press Group in 2004. The East Lothian News was first published in 1971, as part of Scottish County Press Group, with editorial offices in Dalkeith and printing at Bonnyrigg (both in Midlothian). The Scottish County Press Group was acquired by Regional Independent Media in 2000, which was in turn bought by Johnston Press in 2002.

East Coast FM (Scotland) is a community radio station run by volunteers which has been broadcasting since 2009 from studios at 8 Market Street in Haddington. The station is registered as a charity (SC042784). An FM Community Radio Licence was awarded to the station in September 2012 by regulator Ofcom and a frequency of 107.6 FM was allocated in January 2013. Broadcasting on this frequency started in March 2013. The station can be accessed worldwide across the internet through their website.

East Lothian FM is an Online Community Radio Station operated and managed by East Lothian Community Media Ltd. The station started webcasting to the county from their studio at 38 Market Street, Haddington in October 2011 and applied for a Community Radio Licence (on the FM band) during the application period that ended on 14 February 2012. The result of this application will be announced by Ofcom in due course.

References

^ "Land Register Counties and Operational Dates" (PDF). Registers of Scotland. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 September 2013. Retrieved 26 September 2013..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}

^ "A1 Road".

^ "A199 Road".

^ "Road Map East Lothian".

^ "East Coast Buses".

^ "Latest candidate announced for General Election". East Lothian Courier.

^ https://www.eastlothian.gov.uk/info/210600/elections_and_voting/12030/election_results/2

^ https://archive.org/stream/imperialgazettee02wilsuoft#page/n46/mode/1up

^ Martine, John; Wilson, E. J . (1894). Reminiscences and Notices of Ten Parishes of the County of Haddington. Haddington: W. Sinclair. Retrieved 30 September 2018.

^ Martine, John (1883). Reminiscences of the royal burgh of Haddington and old East Lothian agriculturists. Edinburgh; Glasgow: J. Menzies. Retrieved 30 September 2018.

External links

East Lothian Council official government website

East Lothian at Curlie

East Lothian Directory

East Lothian Courier

East Lothian News

East Coast FM

Bibliography of East Lothian (1941)

[1] "Land Register Counties and Operational Dates" (PDF). Registers of Scotland. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 September 2013. Retrieved 26 September 2013..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}

[2] "A1 Road".

[3] "A199 Road".

[4] "Road Map East Lothian".

[5] "East Coast Buses".

[6] "Latest candidate announced for General Election". East Lothian Courier.

[7] ttps://www.eastlothian.gov.uk/info/210600/elections_and_voting/12030/election_results/2

[8] ttps://archive.org/stream/imperialgazettee02wilsuoft#page/n46/mode/1up

[9] Martine, John; Wilson, E. J . (1894). Reminiscences and Notices of Ten Parishes of the County of Haddington. Haddington: W. Sinclair. Retrieved 30 September 2018.

[10] Martine, John (1883). Reminiscences of the royal burgh of Haddington and old East Lothian agriculturists. Edinburgh; Glasgow: J. Menzies. Retrieved 30 September 2018.

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