. Ordnance gazetteer of Scotland : a survey of Scottish topography, statistical, biographical, and historical. is beautifully studded with stalactites. Galashiels, a parliamentary burgh and parish of Sel-kirkshire. The town is situated on both lianksoftheriver Gala, 4 miles WNW of ^Melrose, 6 N of Selkirk,18 ESE of Peebles, and 28 SSE of Edinburgh by is a station on tlic Waverley section of the NorthBritish railway, and from it diverge branch lines toSelkirk and Peebles. The name, from Gala and shiehor shielings, signifying she]iherds huts, appears tohave designated originally a small
. Ordnance gazetteer of Scotland : a survey of Scottish topography, statistical, biographical, and historical. is beautifully studded with stalactites. Galashiels, a parliamentary burgh and parish of Sel-kirkshire. The town is situated on both lianksoftheriver Gala, 4 miles WNW of ^Melrose, 6 N of Selkirk,18 ESE of Peebles, and 28 SSE of Edinburgh by is a station on tlic Waverley section of the NorthBritish railway, and from it diverge branch lines toSelkirk and Peebles. The name, from Gala and shiehor shielings, signifying she]iherds huts, appears tohave designated originally a small village, on the siteof what is now called the old or high town, whichhad found its nucleus in the baronial seat of Gala, onthe S bank of the rivci. This Gallowschel was a placeof anti(juity, and is traditionally said toliave contained a hunting-s(!at of the Scottisli name appears in a charter of the early jtart of the14tli century ; it is mentioned as containing a tower ofEarl Douglas in 1416 ; and it figures in documentsrelating to the marriage of James IV. with the Princess66. Arms of Galashiels. GALASHIELS Margaret of England. The old peel tower, known as Hunters Ha, stood till the end of last century ; andivy-clad ruins of the tolbooth, whose vaue bore date1669, were demolished in the summer of 1880. Thedecay of the village has been arrested by the prosperityof the modern town, and its site is now occupied bynumerous handsome villas and dwelling-houses. Thearmorial bearings of Galashiels are a fox and a jdum-tree, and are said to have beenassumed in memory of an eventthat occurred during invasion of Scotland(1337). A party of English,encamped in or near the town,had begun to straggle throughthe neighbouring woods insearch of wild plums, whenthe inhabitants of Galashielsfell suddenly ujion them, drovethem headlong to a spot on theTweed, nearly opposite Abbots-ford, still known as the Eng-lishmens Syke, and cut themdown almost to a man.
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