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CASTLES & HERITAGE,
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St Martin’s Kirk, St Martins Gate, Haddington.
Open all year. Free admission. 10 miles south, on the eastern
outskirts of Haddington. On bus route 121. Parking. Explore a
truly rare survival, an original parish church from the 1100s.
It stands today as a fine Romanesque ruin. |
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St Mary’s Church, Sidegate, Haddington,
EH41 4BZ. Tel: 01620 825111. Open daily. Free admission. 10 miles
south, centre of Haddington. On bus route 121. Parking. Church
of Scotland parish church. An impressive building of cathedral
proportions dating back to the 12th, 14th and 15th centuries.
Founded as a collegiate church in 1380 it was largely ruined
during the mid-sixteenth century siege of Haddington but is now
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Seton Collegiate Church, Longniddry, EH32 0PG.
Tel: 01875 813334. Open daily April to September, 9.30am –
5.30pm. Closed October to March. 12 miles west, on the A198.
On bus routes 124 and X24. Parking. One of the finest medieval
collegiate churches in Scotland. Local landowner Lord Seton brought
together the community of priests in the late 1400s to pray for
his family’s salvation. |
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Tantallon Castle near North Berwick, EH39
5PN. Tel: 01620 892727. Open daily April to September, 9.30am
– 5.30pm and October to March, 10am – 4pm. 2.5 miles
east, on the A198 Dunbar Road. On bus route 120. Parking. Built
in the 1350s by William Douglas, Tantallon was the last truly
great castle built in Scotland. Endured three sieges but in the
last of 1651 Cromwell’s army caused such destruction that
the castle was abandoned. Its great curtain wall of red sandstone
still stands remarkably complete as do the three towers in which
the mighty earls of Angus lived. |
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