Tranent
Tranent is the largest of a string of villages in East Lothian in central Scotland, 9 miles east of Edinburgh city centre. In 2022 it had a population of 20,700.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Richard Webb, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Photo: marsupium photography, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Prestonpans railway station and Bankton House.
Prestonpans railway station
Railway station
Photo: Richard Webb, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Prestonpans railway station is a railway station serving the mining town of Prestonpans, East Lothian, Scotland. It is located on the North Berwick Line, 9.75 miles east of Edinburgh Waverley. It serves the town of Cockenzie and Port Seton, 1.37 miles away.
Bankton House
Garden
Photo: james denham, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bankton House is a late 17th-century house situated south of Prestonpans in East Lothian, Scotland. The house is located between the A1 road and the East Coast Main Line railway at grid reference NT394736.
Preston Tower
Castle
Photo: Otter, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Preston Tower is a ruined L-plan keep in the ancient Scottish village of Prestonpans. It is situated within a few metres of two other historic houses, Hamilton House and Northfield House.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Prestonpans and Cockenzie and Port Seton.
Prestonpans
Town
Photo: Bill Henderson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Prestonpans is a mining town, situated approximately eight miles east of Edinburgh, Scotland, in the council area of East Lothian. The population as of 2020 is 10,460.
Cockenzie and Port Seton
Town
Photo: Richard Webb, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Cockenzie and Port Seton is a unified town in East Lothian, Scotland. It is on the coast of the Firth of Forth, four miles east of Musselburgh. The burgh of Cockenzie was created in 1591 by James VI of Scotland.
Macmerry
Village
Photo: Richard Webb, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Macmerry is a village located on the old A1 just east of Tranent. The village has a primary school with a roll of around 100. There is an industrial estate to the east of the town.
Tranent
- Type: Town with 11,600 residents
- Description: town in East Lothian, Scotland, UK
- Categories: small burgh and locality
- Location: East Lothian, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.9445° or 55° 56′ 40″ northLongitude
-2.9535° or 2° 57′ 13″ westPopulation
11,600Elevation
295 feet (90 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB TNTOpen location code
9C7VW2VW+QJOpenStreetMap ID
node 292318332OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Tranent” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ترنينت”
- Asturian: “Tranent”
- Basque: “Tranent”
- Bulgarian: “Транент”
- Cebuano: “Tranent”
- Chinese: “特拉嫩特”
- Dutch: “Tranent”
- French: “Tranent”
- German: “Tranent”
- Hebrew: “טרננט”
- Irish: “Tranant”
- Italian: “Tranent”
- Japanese: “トラネント”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tranent”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tranent”
- Norwegian: “Tranent”
- Persian: “ترانانت”
- Polish: “Tranent”
- Russian: “Транент”
- Scots: “Turnent”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Tranant”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Tranent”
- Spanish: “Tranent”
- Swedish: “Tranent”
- Welsh: “Tranent”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Tranent”. Photo: marsupium photography, CC BY-SA 2.0.