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Here a few local businesses which are located in or around Prestonpans High Street. For a comprehensive listing, including small home-based industries take a look at East Lothian Biz. This listing is not intended to imply any recommendation on our part. Any suppliers of goods and services that we can wholeheartedly recommend are to be found on our Endorsement pages.
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If you wish to see an organisation added here - please contact us.
The
Prestoungrange Gothenburg or "The Goth" as it is known locally is
a not-for-profit pub which hosts a very wide variety of events including international
cuisine evenings, live music, psychic fairs, tea dances, cappuccino mornings and
art exhibitions.
It is also the home of Prestoungrange Arts Festival and Fowlers
Microbrewery. Step back in time when you visit the arts and crafts style James
Fewell Bar (which is an Official BookCrossing
Zone where you can pick up or leave books for free) or have coffee or lunch
in the James Park Bistro.
The Prestoungrange
Gothenburg, 227 - 229 High Street, Prestonpans, East Lothian, EH32 9BE.
You cannot fail to notice the various murals dotted throughout the town and stretching from that of the Cornish Beam Engine by Jim Corsiter at the western edge of the town to Andrew Crummy's mural at Cockenzie Power Station to the East. Prestonpans will host the 2006 Global Mural Conference and a Mural Trail leaflet is available from the Goth.
The John Muir Way - Part of this coastal walkway (named after the conservationist) passes through Prestonpans. Simply follow the signposts from West Pans, passing through Prestongrange, Morison's Haven, Prestonpans and Cockenzie Power Station or print off this map (pdf). The complete walkway stretches from Musselburgh to Muir's birthplace of Dunbar.
Prestonpans beach is strewn with fragments of pottery, bricks, and pipe. This unique feature is not the work of litter bugs but a legacy of the town's industrial past. Pretty pottery pieces can be found in abundance in the Morison's Haven area, the site of a 16th century harbour. This is and ideal stop off for a picnic or walk across the road to ...
Prestongrange
Industrial Museum is open April - October 11a.m. - 4.p.m. but the 9 hectare
site is open around the clock all the year round and you can even take a tour
over your mobile phone. The huge Cornish beam engine pumped water from coal mines
for 80 years. It was shipped from Cornwall to Morison's Haven.
Prestongrange
Industrial Museum, Morrison's Haven, Prestonpans. Tel: 0131 653 2904.
Preston Conservation Village - at the southern edge of the town, towards the railway station is a cluster of notable buildings including Preston Lodge, Hamilton House, Northfield House, Preston Tower, Mercat Cross, Doocots. You may be able to look around some of these properties in September when Prestonpans takes part in Doors Open Day.
East Lothian Food Festival takes place in September and further details can be had from the Economic Development department of East Lothian Council. www.eastlothian.gov.uk
There is an 18 hole golf course at Prestongrange House, the home of the Royal Musselburgh Golf Club.
The town is involved in Archaeology Week and further details are available at the East Lothian Heritage site.
Drum Mohr Caravan and Camping Park, Levenhall, Musselburgh, EH21 8JS. Tel: 0131 665 6867.
Take a look at some photographs of Prestonpans - here