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