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