Haddington, the county town, on the Tyne, 17 m. E. of Edinburgh; has interesting ruins of an abbey church, called the “Lamp of Lothian,” a cruciform pile with a central tower, a corn exchange, &c.; was the birthplace of John Knox, Samuel Smiles, and Jane Welsh Carlyle.
Population (circa 1900) given as 3,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Haco V. * Haddingtonshire