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©Steven Brown
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©kim traynor
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Dist:0.2km<br/>Inscription indecipherable, but a tomb grand enough for a landowner, as suggested by the bewigged portrait. The other side - north-facing and noticeably more weathered - is shown at [[1937861]]
©kim traynor
Dist:0.2km<br/>Note the figure nearest the camera holding money bags, suggestive of a prosperous landowner. The other side of the tomb is shown at [[1937855]]
©kim traynor
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©kim traynor
Dist:0.2km<br/>As usual when a town is bypassed, the land inside the new road gets built upon. The weeds are on former farmland, yet to be developed.
©Richard Webb
Dist:0.2km<br/>The cleaver and axe signify the grave as being that of a flesher [butcher]. Above is a Green Man with tusks, holding a cornucopia in his jaws from which spill fruits and other greenery; below are the classic symbols of mortality: a skull and bones; all bordered by representations of vines and grapes.
©kim traynor
Dist:0.2km<br/>Built in 1800 to replace a much earlier church. Contains the graves of Colonel Gardiner, killed at the Battle of Prestonpans and the wealthy Cadell family.
©james denham
Dist:0.2km<br/>Situated in Church Street, this is the home of the Tranent Congregation of the Jehovah's Witnesses.
©james denham
Dist:0.3km<br/>The A1 bypasses Tranent to the north. There is a junction here serving Tranent, Prestonpans, Port Seton and Cockenzie. The grassland in the background is a former opencast coal mining site.
©Richard Webb
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©M J Richardson
Dist:0.3km<br/>Path linking Tranent with the sports facilities at Meadowmill. Here it passes beneath the A1 Tranent bypass.
©Richard Webb
Dist:0.3km<br/>The year 1587 is dated on the lintel of Tranent Parish Church Doocot. This is one of the oldest dated doocots in Scotland.
©Lisa Jarvis
Dist:0.3km<br/>One of the oldest dated doocots in Scotland (1587 is the date upon the lintel).
©Lisa Jarvis

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