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Gladsmuir is a village and parish in East Lothian, Scotland, situated on the A199 and near Tranent and Prestonpans. ==Description== The name ''Gladsmuir'' stems from the Scots word ''gled'', meaning a bird of prey, (usually a buzzard), combined with ''muir''; the Scots form of moor, thus ''Buzzard's Moor'' might loosely translate ''Gladsmuir'' into English. Gladsmuir's principal "claim to fame" relates to its role as the site of the Battle of Prestonpans (1745). Some sources - particularly maps - occasionally refer to the confrontation as the Battle of Gladsmuir. The Jacobite poet William Hamilton (1704-1754) wrote a poem entitled ''Gladsmuir'' in celebration of the battle. The philanthropist George Heriot, jeweller to James VI, King of Scots and founder of Heriot's Hospital, (later George Heriot's School), in Edinburgh, was born in Gladsmuir. Gladsmuir Parish Kirk is a Romanesque cruciform church dating from 1839 and designed by William Burn. A replacement was built after a fire in 1886 by John Farquarson of Haddington with later improvements made in 1929. The older ruined kirk can still be seen and explored behind the new kirk. The graveyard contains several CWGC graves from both world wars. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gladsmuir」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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