Place:Pencaitland (village), East Lothian, Scotland

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NamePencaitland (village)
TypeVillage
Coordinates55.909°N 2.8957°W
Located inEast Lothian, Scotland     ( - 1975)
See alsoPencaitland, East Lothian, Scotlandparish in which Pencaitland Village was located until 1975
Lothian, Scotlandregional administration 1975-1996
East Lothian (council area), Scotlandunitary Council Area since 1996
source: Family History Library Catalog


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Pencaitland is a village in East Lothian, Scotland, about south-east of Edinburgh, south-west of Haddington, and east of Ormiston.

The land where the village lies is said to have been granted by William the Lion to Calum Cormack in 1169, who gave the church, with the tithes and other property belonging to it, to the monks of Kelso, in whose possession it remained till a short time prior to the accession of Robert Bruce. The land subsequently became the property of a younger branch of the Maxwell family, who granted the advowson and tithes to the monks of Dryburgh Abbey, who held them until the Reformation.

The Tyne Water divides the village into Easter Pencaitland and Wester Pencaitland, crossed by a three-arched bridge dating from the 16th Century. An ancient cross in Wester Pencaitland indicates that there would probably have been a market there. A large industrial maltings, which was built in 1965, is situated just before the entrance to the village at Wester Pencaitland.

For more information, see the EN Wikipedia article Pencaitland., especially the sections on the houses "Winton House" and "Fountainhall".

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