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Gifford, East Lothian
Gifford is a village in the parish of Yester in East Lothian, Scotland. It lies approximately 4 miles south of Haddington and 25 miles east of Edinburgh.
==History==
The village takes its name from the 13th-century Sir Hugo de Giffard of Yester, whose ancient Scoto-Norman family possessed the baronies of Yester, Morham, and Duncanlaw in Haddingtonshire, and Tayling and Poldame in the counties of Perthshire and Forfar.〔Gifford, John, ''East Lothian Villages'', East Lothian, 1975〕
The first Hugo de Giffard's grandson, Hugh de Giffard, was a noted magician〔McWilliam, Colin, ''Lothian Except Edinburgh'', London, 1978: 215〕 who built Yester Castle (half a mile south-east of the present-day Yester House), the ruins and an underground chamber (the 'Goblin Ha') of which can be seen in Yester Wood. The same ''Hobgoblin Hall'' featured in the poem "Marmion" by Walter Scott.〔ed Smeaton, Oliphant, ''Poems of Scott'' - ''Marmion: The Host's Tale'', London〕
The Mercat Cross was built in 1780 and is still standing in the centre of the village.〔McWilliam, Colin, 1978: 209〕
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