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