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