Old travel Blog photograph of the Market Cross in Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland. One of the first references to Haddington Market Cross occurs in 1425. A pre Reformation cross existed until 1693 when a notice in the Town Council records indicates that stones had been purchased for " building ane new cross ". That cross was said to have had a square base with four steps, surmounted by a unicorn. In 1811 an Englishman climbed the cross, but in the process pulled over the shaft and broke it into pieces. That cross was subsequently replaced by a wooden post, about 12 feet high, in 1853. The current market cross, gifted in 1881, stands in the High Street near the site of the original cross.
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