Main road leads to Aberlady Bay, expanse of salt marsh, dunes and creeks. This flamboyant house of red sandstone, in Scottish Baronial style, was built 1846 for governor of Bank of Scotland by James Gillespie Graham. In churchyard are ruins of a pre-Reformation kirk. Two mile walk leads round top of Elizabethan walls encircling town. Georgian barracks contain exhibition of British infantry's history.
Splendid arch rises among scattered gravestones and masonry.
Priory choir embodied in parish church. Cove Aptly named village with Cornish flavour. Steep track carved out of rock leads down cliffs to harbour where fishing boats shelter. Dirleton Cottages and houses from 17th, 18th and 19th centuries and 12th-century church line three sides of wide green. On fourth side are ruins of 13th-century castle built on outcrop of rock with drum towers, kitchen, chapel and ruins of Great Hall.