Overview
North Links is the exact Historic Environment Scotland record for a named whole settlement in East Lothian. The supporting saved type component is Settlement (medieval). The source gives its period wording as medieval. The saved record identifies the place without supplying safe names for its owners or residents.
Who lived here and when
The official record identifies North Links with the exact type wording Settlement (medieval). The source gives its period wording as medieval. It does not safely name particular residents, families or landholders.
Homes and daily life
The exact type shows that this was an inhabited place rather than an isolated field or wall. The saved row does not describe individual homes, possessions, work or daily routines at North Links.
What was found
This record preserves the name, classification and mapped point of North Links. It does not safely list excavated objects or building finds, so none are added here.
Why it ended
The saved record does not explain whether North Links was abandoned, cleared, rebuilt or gradually fell out of use. The word deserted is used only when it appears in the exact official type.
Why it mattered
North Links matters because it fixes a named inhabited place in the landscape of East Lothian. Its exact subject and period help show where communities lived, while the individual source record gives later local research a firm starting point.
History checked 16 August 2026 against the named sources below.
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