Gladsmuir

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Gladsmuir is a village and parish in East Lothian, Scotland, UK, situated on the A199 and near Tranent and Prestonpans.

Gladsmuir's possible main "claim to fame" is that the Battle of Prestonpans is sometimes still referred to as the Battle of Gladsmuir, especially on maps.

The Jacobite poet William Hamilton wrote a poem entitled Gladsmuir in celebration of the Battle.

George Heriot, the philanthropist and founder of Heriots School in Edinburgh, was born in Gladsmuir.

Gladsmuir Parish Kirk is a Romanesque cruciform church dating from 1839. A replacement was built after a fire in 1886 and improvements were made in 1929.

The old ruined kirk can still be seen and explored behind the new kirk.