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East Lothian

East Lothian is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland, as well as a historic county, registration county and lieutenancy area. The county was called Haddingtonshire until 1921.
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  • Type: County with 104,000 residents
  • Description: council area of Scotland; lieutenancy area
  • Also known as: “Haddington”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Yester Parish Church and Bolton Parish Church.

Church
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is a church of the Church of Scotland in the village of , East Lothian, . The village forms part of Yester, Bolton and Saltoun parish, and is a linked charge with Humbie Parish Church.

Church
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is a church in , East Lothian, . It is part of the Church of Scotland and serves the parish of Yester, Bolton and Saltoun.

Castle
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is a ruined castle, located 1+1⁄2 miles southeast of the village of in East Lothian, Scotland. The only remaining complete structure is the subterranean Goblin Ha' or Hobgoblin Ha'.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Haddington and Gifford.

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is a market town in , 15 miles east of Edinburgh in central Scotland. It's the administrative centre of East Lothian council area, with a population of 10,360 in 2020.

Village
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is a village in the parish of Yester in East Lothian, Scotland. It lies approximately 4 miles south of and 25 miles east of . It groups around the Colstoun Water at the junction of the B6369 and B6355 surrounded by rural farmland.

Hamlet
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is a hamlet and the third smallest parish in East Lothian, Scotland. It lies approximately 2 miles south of and 20 miles east of , and is an entirely agricultural parish, 6 miles long by about 1.25 miles wide.

East Lothian

Latitude
55.9158° or 55° 54′ 57″ north
Longitude
-2.7512° or 2° 45′ 4″ west
Population
104,000
Elevation
453 feet (138 metres)
Abbreviation
“ELN”
Open location code
9C7VW68X+8G
Open­Street­Map ID
node 302324108
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­county
Geo­Names ID
2650386
Wiki­data ID
Q207257
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“East Lothian” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “لوثيان الشرقية”
  • Armenian: “Արևելյան Լոթիան”
  • Asturian: “East Lothian”
  • Basque: “Ekialdeko Lothian”
  • Belarusian: “Іст-Лотыян”
  • Belarusian: “Усходні Лотыян”
  • Bengali: “ইস্ট লোথিয়ান”
  • Breton: “Lodainn an Ear”
  • Bulgarian: “Източен Лоудиън”
  • Catalan: “East Lothian”
  • Cebuano: “East Lothian”
  • Chinese: “Tang Lothian”
  • Chinese: “东洛锡安”
  • Chinese: “東洛錫安”
  • Czech: “East Lothian”
  • Czech: “Východní Lothian”
  • Danish: “East Lothian”
  • Danish: “Haddingtonshire”
  • Dutch: “East Lothian”
  • Dutch: “Haddingtonshire”
  • Esperanto: “East Lothian”
  • Esperanto: “Haddingtonshire”
  • Esperanto: “orienta Lothian”
  • Estonian: “East Lothian”
  • Fiji Hindi: “East Lothian”
  • Finnish: “Itä-Lothian”
  • French: “East Lothian”
  • French: “Haddingtonshire”
  • German: “East Lothian”
  • German: “GB-ELN”
  • German: “Haddingtonshire”
  • Gujarati: “પૂર્વ લોથીયાન”
  • Icelandic: “Austur-Lothian”
  • Indonesian: “East Lothian”
  • Irish: “Comhairle Lodainn an Ear”
  • Irish: “Lodainn an Ear”
  • Irish: “Lodainn Thoir”
  • Italian: “East Lothian”
  • Italian: “Lothian dell’est”
  • Italian: “Lothian orientale”
  • Italian: “Lothian Orientale”
  • Japanese: “イースト・ロージアン”
  • Japanese: “イースト・ロジアン”
  • Japanese: “イーストロージアン”
  • Japanese: “イーストロジアン”
  • Japanese: “東ロージアン”
  • Kannada: “ಪೂರ್ವ ಲೋಥಿಯನ್”
  • Kazakh: “Ист-Лотиан”
  • Korean: “이스트 로디언 주”
  • Korean: “이스트 로디언”
  • Korean: “이스트로디안 주”
  • Korean: “이스트로디언 주”
  • Korean: “이스트로디언”
  • Kurdish: “East Lothian”
  • Latin: “East Lothian”
  • Latin: “Hadintoniensis”
  • Lithuanian: “Rytų Lodianas”
  • Lithuanian: “Rytų Lotianas”
  • Malay: “Lothian Timur”
  • Manx: “Lodainn Hiar”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tang Lothian”
  • Northern Frisian: “East Lothian”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “East Lothian”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Haddingtonshire”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Aust-Lothian”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “East Lothian”
  • Norwegian: “East Lothian”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “East Loðene”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Ēast Loðene”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Ēastloðen”
  • Ossetian: “Ист-Лотиан”
  • Persian: “لوتیان شرقی”
  • Polish: “East Lothian”
  • Portuguese: “East Lothian”
  • Romanian: “East Lothian”
  • Russian: “Восточный Лотиан”
  • Russian: “Ист-Лотиан”
  • Scots: “Aest Lowden”
  • Scots: “East Lothian”
  • Scots: “East Lowden”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Comhairle Lodainn an Ear”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Labhdaidh an Ear”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Lodainn an Ear”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “sgìre comhairle Lodainn an Ear”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Istočni Lothian”
  • Slovenian: “East Lothian”
  • Spanish: “East Lothian”
  • Spanish: “Haddingtonshire”
  • Swedish: “East Lothian”
  • Tamil: “கிழக்கு லோதியன்”
  • Telugu: “పశ్చిమ లోథియన్”
  • Turkish: “East Lothian”
  • Ukrainian: “Східний Лотіан”
  • Urdu: “ایسٹ لوتھیان”
  • Welsh: “Dwyrain Lothian”
  • Western Panjabi: “ایسٹ لوتھین”
  • Yue Chinese: “東洛錫安”

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