Tranent
Tranent is a Town in the county of East Lothian.
Tranent postcode: EH33 1AF
There are great places to visit near Tranent.
Tranent History
There are some historic monuments around Tranent:
- Ormiston,market cross Crosses and carved stones: market cross SM90234
- Redhouse Castle Secular: castle SM775
- Craigielaw,enclosures 200m S of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM4142
- Seton Mains, enclosure and ring ditch, 300m NE of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: palisaded enclosure SM6287
- Windy Mains,enclosures 600m SE of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: palisaded enclosure SM5755
- Preston,market cross Crosses and carved stones: market cross SM90242
- Beech Knowe, enclosure, Remote Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM6809
- Preston Toll,fort Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort) SM5743
- Elphinstone Tower,enclosure and ring ditch 600m W of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM5685
- Seton Mains, fort Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort) SM6191
- Southfield,ring ditch 350m SW of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: house SM5688
- Play Hill, settlement Prehistoric domestic and defensive: settlement SM6231
- Costerton,fort 800m E of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort) SM5736
- Kilspindie, wrecks of eight fishing boats 240m E of Secular: shipwreck SM10471
- Crichton Mains,souterrain 1280m E of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: souterrain, earth-house SM1169
- Catherine Lodge, Roman settlement & field system 205m NNW to 585m SE of Roman: civil settlement SM3612
- Westpans,potteries Industrial: pottery SM5116
- Kilspindie Golf Course,fort Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort) SM5759
- Turniedykes,enclosure 150m NW of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM6272
- Oxenfoord Mains,enclosure 400m NE of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM6270
- Kilspindie Castle,castle and settlement Secular: castle SM5997
- Cousland Castle, tower and house 75m ESE of Chapeldyke Secular: tower SM1187
- Chalkieside, enclosure 400m SSW of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM6212
- Inveresk,Roman civil settlement W of Inveresk Gate Roman: civil settlement SM3293
- Eskgrove, Roman civil settlement 40 m N of Roman: altar SM3267
- Queen Mary's Mount,fort Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort) SM6204
- Eastfield,enclosures and pit alignments,Old Craighall Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM6020
- Easter Cowden, enclosure 200m E of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM6210
- Longfaugh Fort,Crichton Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort) SM1174
- Lawfield Wood,fort Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort) SM6338
- Hope,enclosure 300m SSE of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM6273
- Pathhead,Roman camps,enclosures and pit alignment Prehistoric domestic and defensive: pit alignment; Roman: camp SM5819
- Wester Pencaitland,fort and enclosure Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM5746
- Greendykes, enclosure 310m SSE of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM4101
- Inveresk House,Roman civil settlement,Inveresk Roman: civil settlement SM1182
- Fuffet Wood,enclosure and cropmarks 100m E of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM6267
- Tyneholm House,enclosure 600m S of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM5747
- Greendykes,enclosure 200m W of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM5674
- Seton Collegiate Church Ecclesiastical: collegiate church SM13368
- Smeaton Bridge,pit alignment 100m NW of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: pit alignment SM5672
- Templehall,enclosure 700m SW of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM5745
- Elphinstone Tower,towerhouse Secular: tower SM6318
- Back Braes,enclosure Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM5748
- Chalkieside,enclosure 500m SW of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM6205
- Keith Kirk,Keith Marischal Ecclesiastical: church SM758
- Camp Wood,fort Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort) SM1164
- West Mains,fort Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort) SM4004
- Monktonhall Junction,Roman camps and prehistoric settlement Prehistoric domestic and defensive: settlement; Roman: camp SM3610
- Saltoun Home Farm,enclosure and pit alignments 200m NW of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM5750
- South Lodge, enclosure 200m SE of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM10373
- Chalkieside Quarry, enclosure Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM6213
- Templehall,enclosures 500m NNW of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM5744
- Rectilinear enclosure 80m SW of Kilronan Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM6203
- Easter Cowden, enclosures Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM6209
- Spittal,enclosures 200m NE of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM6295
- Preston Mains,enclosure Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM5885
- Inveresk,Roman fort & civil settlement Roman: civil settlement SM3285
- Seton West Mains, enclosures 500m SW of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM5687
- Wolfstar,enclosure Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM5749
- Pardivan,enclosure 200m W of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM6269
- Dodridge Law,fort Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort) SM5754
- Tranent Tower Secular: tower SM778
- Preston Tower and Dovecot Secular: tower SM774
- Monktonhall Junction, Neolithic cursus 150m N of Whitecraig Prehistoric ritual and funerary: cursus/bank barrow SM13318
- Fordel Mains,fort 350m SW of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort) SM6268
- Gowkshill,enclosure 300m SE of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM6337
- Spittal,fort 800m S of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort) SM4082
- Longfaugh,enclosures 200m E of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM6274
- Chalkieside, enclosure 600m SW of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM6211
- Birsley Brae,medieval coal mine Industrial: coal SM3352
- Pinkiehill,field system 300m S of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: field or field system SM3611
- Upper Keith, ring ditch 1000m NNW of Prehistoric ritual and funerary: barrow SM5735
- Ormiston Hall,St Giles Kirk Ecclesiastical: church SM761
- South Elphinstone, settlement, chapel and graveyard 370m WSW of Ecclesiastical: chapel; Prehistoric domestic and defensive: settlement SM13365
- Kiloran,settlement 25m NE of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: settlement SM3934
- Gowkshill,enclosure 150m E of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM6336
- Winton Hill,enclosure Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM6240
- Lawfield,enclosure 500m E of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM6339
History of Tranent
In connection with the annual commemoration of the Battle of Prestonpans (originally called the Battle of Gladsmuir, and then renamed the Battle of Tranent, before many decades later being renamed the Battle of Prestonpans) there are plans to recreate a small portion of the Tranent to Cockenzie Waggonway.
