Tranent, a police-burgh of Haddingtonshire, 7½ miles east of Edinburgh. It has a fine school (1877), water-works (1883), and in the churchyard Colonel Gardiner's grave. Coal has been mined here since 1219. Pop. (1851) 2096; (1891) 2389. See P. M'Neil's Tranent, &c. (2d ed. 1884).
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