PRESTONPANS is a small fishing town eight miles east of Edinburgh. It is renowned as the site of the battle fought near there in 1745 between the Jacobite forces of pretender to the British throne, Charles Edward Stuart, and the government forces of Hanoverian Redcoats, led by Sir John Cope. 

It was the first battle of the ill-fated Jacobite uprising of the same year and ended after 30 minutes with the Hanoverian forces being routed in the face of the famous Highland charge.

Prestonpans’s most famous son today is Josh Taylor, a boxer who fights for nobody’s throne but his own. This weekend he steps into the ring to face California’s likewise undefeated Jose Ramirez in Las Vegas for the right to be considered the undisputed king of the light welterweight division.