Prestonpans
Prestonpans is a Town in the county of East Lothian.
Prestonpans postcode: EH32 9AB
There are great places to visit near Prestonpans.
Prestonpans History
There are some historic monuments around Prestonpans:
- Windy Mains,enclosures 600m SE of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: palisaded enclosure SM5755
- Inveresk,Roman fort & civil settlement Roman: civil settlement SM3285
- Fordel Mains,fort 350m SW of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort) SM6268
- Ormiston,market cross Crosses and carved stones: market cross SM90234
- Newton,pit alignment 500m E of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: pit alignment SM5706
- Back Braes,enclosure Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM5748
- Castlesteads Park,ring ditches Prehistoric domestic and defensive: house SM5707
- Lawfield,enclosure 500m E of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM6339
- Kiloran,settlement 25m NE of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: settlement SM3934
- Beech Knowe, enclosure, Remote Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM6809
- Elphinstone Tower,enclosure and ring ditch 600m W of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM5685
- Dodridge Law,fort Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort) SM5754
- Chalkieside, enclosure 400m SSW of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM6212
- Seton Mains, enclosure and ring ditch, 300m NE of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: palisaded enclosure SM6287
- Dalkeith,choir of Collegiate Kirk of St Nicholas,parish church Ecclesiastical: church SM1188
- Seton Mains, fort Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort) SM6191
- Wolfstar,enclosure Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM5749
- Monktonhall Junction, Neolithic cursus 150m N of Whitecraig Prehistoric ritual and funerary: cursus/bank barrow SM13318
- Winton Hill,enclosure Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM6240
- Queen Mary's Mount,fort Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort) SM6204
- Seton West Mains, enclosures 500m SW of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM5687
- Pardivan,enclosure 200m W of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM6269
- Tranent Tower Secular: tower SM778
- Lawfield Wood,fort Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort) SM6338
- Catherine Lodge, Roman settlement & field system 205m NNW to 585m SE of Roman: civil settlement SM3612
- Eastfield,enclosures and pit alignments,Old Craighall Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM6020
- Templehall,enclosure 700m SW of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM5745
- Smeaton Bridge,pit alignment 100m NW of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: pit alignment SM5672
- Greendykes,enclosure 200m W of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM5674
- Monktonhall Junction,Roman camps and prehistoric settlement Prehistoric domestic and defensive: settlement; Roman: camp SM3610
- Greendykes, enclosure 310m SSE of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM4101
- West Mains,fort Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort) SM4004
- Chalkieside,enclosure 500m SW of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM6205
- Inveresk House,Roman civil settlement,Inveresk Roman: civil settlement SM1182
- Preston,market cross Crosses and carved stones: market cross SM90242
- Southfield,ring ditch 350m SW of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: house SM5688
- Preston Tower and Dovecot Secular: tower SM774
- Templehall,enclosures 500m NNW of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM5744
- Eskgrove, Roman civil settlement 40 m N of Roman: altar SM3267
- South Lodge, enclosure 200m SE of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM10373
- Newton Church,church,enclosures and field system Ecclesiastical: church; Secular: enclosure SM5441
- Chalkieside Quarry, enclosure Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM6213
- Elphinstone Tower,towerhouse Secular: tower SM6318
- Castle Steads,pit alignment 150m NE of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: pit alignment SM5708
- Easter Cowden, enclosures Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM6209
- Newton,pit alignment 600m SE of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: pit alignment SM5705
- Wester Pencaitland,fort and enclosure Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM5746
- Preston Toll,fort Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort) SM5743
- Newbattle Abbey, abbey church, cloisters and associated buildings Ecclesiastical: abbey SM1190
- Chalkieside, enclosure 600m SW of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM6211
- Oxenfoord Mains,enclosure 400m NE of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM6270
- Elginhaugh,Roman camp,native fort and palisaded enclosure 600m NE of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort); Roman: camp SM6202
- Pinkiehill,field system 300m S of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: field or field system SM3611
- South Elphinstone, settlement, chapel and graveyard 370m WSW of Ecclesiastical: chapel; Prehistoric domestic and defensive: settlement SM13365
- Easter Cowden, enclosure 200m E of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM6210
- Birsley Brae,medieval coal mine Industrial: coal SM3352
- Fuffet Wood,enclosure and cropmarks 100m E of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM6267
- Inveresk,Roman civil settlement W of Inveresk Gate Roman: civil settlement SM3293
- Newton,pit alignment 150m NE of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: pit alignment SM5729
- Newton,pit alignment 150m E of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: pit alignment SM5704
- Tyneholm House,enclosure 600m S of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM5747
- Westpans,potteries Industrial: pottery SM5116
- Ormiston Hall,St Giles Kirk Ecclesiastical: church SM761
- Preston Mains,enclosure Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM5885
- Camp Wood,fort Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort) SM1164
- Cousland Castle, tower and house 75m ESE of Chapeldyke Secular: tower SM1187
- Seton Collegiate Church Ecclesiastical: collegiate church SM13368
- Rectilinear enclosure 80m SW of Kilronan Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM6203
History of Prestonpans
On 31 October 2004 the innocence was publicly declared of 81 Scottish women convicted of being witches and executed in the 16th and 17th centuries.
