What is "hailes"

Hailes or clacken is a Scottish ball game which dates to the 18th century and achieved its widest popularity in the nineteenth. It has now virtually died out, replaced by football, except at the Edinburgh Academy, where an exhibition match is played annually. The game is similar to shinty but played with wooden bats known as clackens.

Hailes may refer to:

• Hailes Castle, the castle in East Lothian, Scotland
• Hailes Abbey, the abbey in Gloucestershire, England
• Hailes Church, the church at Hailes Abbey in Gloucestershire, England
• Hailles, a commune in the Picardy region of France

• Patrick Hepburn, 1st Lord Hailes
• Patrick Hepburn, 2nd Lord Hailes
• Patrick Buchan-Hepburn, 1st Baron Hailes
• Sir David Dalrymple, 1st Baronet of Hailes
• Sir James Dalrymple, 2nd Baronet of Hailes
• Sir David Dalrymple, 3rd Baronet, Lord Hailes
• Adam Hepburn, Master of Hailes
• Lady Hailes

• Hailes (ball game) is a Scottish ball game
• Lordship and Barony of Hailes, a Scottish feudal lordship