East Linton, Scotland. We travel to East Linton in East Lothian in Scotland, just a short drive from Edinburgh, and close to Dunbar and North Berwick!
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East Linton is a small country town between Haddington and Dunbar in East Lothian.

The agricultural town of East Linton lies on the River Tyne, 22 miles east of Edinburgh. Its 16th century bridge over the Tyne gorge helped its growth until the arrival of the A1. You can take a seat in the square and watch the water in the fountain sparkle in the sun and splash over the cherubs or take a stroll down Mill Wynd to The Linn, the waterfall that gives East Linton its name.

Some buildings of special note are St Andrew's former church in the square with its neo - Romanesque frontage and its clock named Jessie. Preston Kirk is a very old church on Preston Road, the road which leads to Tyninghame, which has a fascinating graveyard complete with cast iron headstones.

A bit further down the road is Preston Mill, an unusually shaped old water mill now in the care of the National Trust for Scotland. East Linton is also home to Phantassie Doo'cot, a beehive shaped dovecot from the 16th century. There is also Smeaton Lake, which has a fine collection of different specimen trees around the lake plus geese and water fowl.

The Museum of Flight at East Fortune, home to over 50 vintage aircraft including a Spitfire, Tigermoth and Vulcan, as well as a Concorde, is just a stone’s throw away.

Some people say East Linton is Scotland's prettiest town and the best place to live in Scotland so we take a look around to see if that's true!

East Linton lies largely to the west of a bridge built in the 1500s over the River Tyne, but probably predates it by many centuries. A little over a mile to its south-west lies Hailes Castle, built in the 1200s, while on the edge of the village is the Parish Kirk of Traprain, which incorporates a chancel of similar age.

The bridging of the River Tyne secured East Linton's place as a staging post on the Great North Road. This is reflected in the rather good choice of hotels and pubs in the village, including the Bridgend Hotel set, not surprisingly, facing the end of the bridge.

The River Tyne proved ideal as a source of power for mills, a number of which were built along its banks through the village. Just to the north-east of East Linton is Preston Mill, a survivor dating back to the end of the 1500s. This is run by the National Trust for Scotland and is one of the oldest meal mills in Scotland with its machinery still in working order.

The railway came to East Linton in 1846. Today the East Coast Main Line is carried through the village at high level, bridging both the River Tyne and main village street. It comes as a surprise to see high speed trains passing feet away from the gable end of the pretty ivy-clad stone pharmacy in the village. East Linton originally had its own station, but this disappeared in 1960.

The Great North Road, the A1, has long bypassed East Linton, and the most recent incarnation of the road has no convenient junction for the village. The earlier bypass succeeded in keeping through traffic away from its narrow streets and even narrower bridge, and despite the arrangement of its successor the village remains a busy place in its own right. At its heart lies the village square, complete with an attractive gilt fountain. From here roads lead to the River Tyne bridge, as well as north-east towards Prestonkirk and north towards North Berwick.

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