Galashiels

Galashiels is a Town in the county of Scottish Borders.

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Galashiels History

There are some historic monuments around Galashiels:

Melrose Abbey Ecclesiastical: abbey SM90214
Howden,motte Secular: motte SM2256
Torwoodlee Tower Secular: tower SM8687
Windydoors Farm, Bastle Secular: bastle SM13691
Philiphaugh,linear earthwork Prehistoric domestic and defensive: linear earthwork SM2213
Caddonlee,fort Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort) SM2497
Craigend,fort 360m W of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort) SM1168
Bell Hill,fort 910m NE of Smedheugh Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort) SM1724
Rink Hill,fort 700m NE of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort) SM2260
Linglie,fort Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort) SM2234
Eildon Hill North,fort & Roman signal station Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort); Roman: signal station SM2107
Craig Hill,enclosure Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM2103
Middlestead,earthwork Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM2398
Our Lady's Chapel,chapel 350m N of Torsonce Ecclesiastical: chapel SM3942
Cairn Rig,cairn Prehistoric ritual and funerary: cairn (type uncertain) SM2284
Langshaw Tower and associated structures Secular: bell tower SM6829
Faldonside to Kippielaw,linear earthwork Prehistoric domestic and defensive: linear earthwork SM2291
Lindean,earthwork Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM2295
Peel Hill, motte and bailey castle, Selkirk Secular: motte SM2967
Lindean,old church Ecclesiastical: church SM3246
Lauder Barns,palisaded enclosure 550m SSW of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: palisaded enclosure SM3805
Corby Linn,earthwork Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM2216
Philiphaugh, settlement and burial ground 150m S of Calton Cottage Ecclesiastical: burial ground, cemetery, graveyard; Secular: settlement, including deserted, depopulated and townships SM12981
New Greenhill,fort Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort) SM2272
Long Philip Burn,earthwork Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM2215
Bow Castle,broch 1000m E of Bow Prehistoric domestic and defensive: broch SM1162
Sunderland Hall,cairn 1500m W of Prehistoric ritual and funerary: cairn (type uncertain) SM4537
Huntly Burn,earthworks Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM2528
Old Redhead, deserted settlement 15m NE of and 25m ESE of Secular: settlement, including deserted, depopulated and townships SM13722
Sunderland Hill,earthwork Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM2146
Hollybush,earthwork Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM2258
Cauldshiels Hill,fort Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort) SM1725
Brownmoor Glen,fort Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort) SM2225
Cathpair,hut circles and field system 2500m and 2600m ESE of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: field or field system SM4504
Stow,old bridge Secular: bridge SM2855
Colmslie Tower Secular: bell tower SM6828
Whytbank Tower, ancillary buildings and garden Secular: garden SM13723
Buckholm Tower Secular: tower SM8715
Torwoodlee, broch, fort & linear earthworks Prehistoric domestic and defensive: broch SM2448
St Mary's Church, Stow Ecclesiastical: church SM8215
Linglie Hill,linear earthwork Prehistoric domestic and defensive: linear earthwork SM2298
Yair,fort,Oakbank Wood Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort) SM2122
Rink Hill,fort Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort) SM2119
Watherston,fort Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort) SM1180

History of Galashiels

The town’s coat of arms shows two foxes reaching up to eat plums from a tree, and the motto is Sour Plums pronounced in Scots as soor plooms. It is a reference to an incident in 1337 when a raiding party of English soldiers were picking wild plums close to the town and were caught by Scots who came across them by chance and slaughtered them all.

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