LONGNIDDRY, a village, in the parish of GladsMUiR,
county of Haddington, 4 miles (\V. by N.) from
Haddington; containing 216 inhabitants. This village,
which is irregularly built, is situated within half a mile
of the Firth of Forth, and has a station on the line of
the North-British railway. It appears to have been
once of much greater extent than at present; a considerable
portion of the site of ancient buildings is now in a
state of cultivation, and in the memory of persons yet
living there were several ranges of houses, the foundations
of which have been obliterated by the plough.
Part of the old mansion of the Douglases, here, is still
occupied by a tenant; and near it are the remains of
the ancient chapel, called, from Knox's having preached
in it, John Knox's Kirk. See Gladsmuir.