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The town of Peebles in the Scottish Borders holds a traditional week-long " Beltane Fair " every year in June, when a local girl is crowned Beltane Queen on the steps of the parish church.
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The game is also played extensively in the small town of Peebles in the Scottish Borders, mainly in the local primary school playground, where it is favored to more traditional childhood past-times such as ' British bulldogs ' and ' Kiss, Cuddle and Torture '.
The census-designated places of St. Peter and Taycheedah and the unincorporated communities of Bergen Beach, Gladstone Beach, Hopokoekau Beach, Linden Beach, Minawa Beach, Peebles, Silica, and Welling Beach are located in the town.
* Peebles Island State Park – A state park in the south part of the town.
Initially a market town, Peebles played a role in the woollen industry of the Scottish Borders up until the 1960s.
Although one woollen mill remains operational in the town, the industrial composition of Peebles has changed ; the town is now home to many people who commute to work in Edinburgh as well as being a popular tourist destination, especially in the summer.
Notable buildings in the town include the Old Parish Church of Peebles and Neidpath Castle.
The road passing through this gate, the Eastgate, is one of four gates in Peebles, the others being Northgate, Bridgegate ( where the Eddleston Water was crossed to the north of town ), and Ludgate ( the western gate of the town ), now called Young Street.
A hillside to the north of the town is dominated by the Peebles Hydro Hotel.
In 2005, a study by the New Economics Foundation ranked Peebles as the best town in Scotland ( second best in the UK, after Hebden Bridge in Yorkshire ), for range of independent shops and ' home town identity '.
The town was once served by the Symington, Biggar and Broughton Railway, which ran from the Caledonian Railway ( now the West Coast Main Line ) at Symington to join the Peebles Railway at Peebles.
Its main town was Peebles, and it bordered Midlothian to the north, Selkirkshire to the east, Dumfriesshire to the south, and Lanarkshire to the west.
Situated to the south of the Scottish Border town of Peebles, Dawyck botanic garden is particularly suitable for hardy plants from the world's cooler, drier areas.
He was born on March 17, 1939 in the small town of Peebles in the Tweed Valley of the Scottish Borders.
The Common Riding festivals of many Southern Upland towns such as Jedburgh, Kelso, Hawick, Peebles, Selkirk and Langholm recall this history, re-enacting the practice of riding the boundaries of the town to enable warning to be given of raids from the south.
Peebles is a town in Scotland.
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Arbroath Abbey, in the Scottish town of Arbroath, was founded in 1178 by King William the Lion for a group of Tironensian Benedictine monks from Kelso Abbey.
Standing at above sea level, it is located at the western end of the Grampian Mountains in the Lochaber area of the Scottish Highlands, close to the town of Fort William.
Edinburgh is the home town of the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Tony Blair, who was born in the city and attended Fettes College ; Robin Harper the co-convener of the Scottish Green Party ; and John Witherspoon, the only clergyman to sign the United States Declaration of Independence, and later president of Princeton University.
The town also has a football team, Fort William F. C., competing in the Scottish Highland Football League.
Hawick ( ;, ) is a town in the Scottish Borders council area and historic county of Roxburghshire in the east Southern Uplands of Scotland.
* 1298 – Wars of Scottish Independence: Battle of Falkirk – King Edward I of England and his longbowmen defeat William Wallace and his Scottish schiltrons outside the town of Falkirk.
The town was named after the Scottish Perth, in Murray's honour.
* 1543 – Mary Stuart, at nine months old, is crowned " Queen of Scots " in the central Scottish town of Stirling.
Kelley lived in Lynn, Massachusetts, a town with 4, 500 Irish immigrants, 1, 900 English immigrants, and 700 Scottish immigrants in 1920.
* Winter – Much of the English town of Alnwick in Northumbria is burnt by a Scottish raiding party.
* March 30 – Edward I storms Berwick-upon-Tweed, sacking the then Scottish border town with much bloodshed.
The Scottish Reformation also played a big role in the town with the sacking of the Houses of the Greyfriars and Blackfriars, after a sermon given by John Knox in St John's Kirk in 1559.
The Dunblane school massacre occurred at Dunblane Primary School in the Scottish town of Dunblane on 13 March 1996.
French, Scottish, Irish, and Germans migrated to the developing seacoast town, representing numerous Protestant denominations, as well as Roman Catholicism and Judaism.
Other sources suggest that the fictional village's name was constructed from the Celtic word " briga ", which means " town " ( such as in the old city names of Segobriga and Brigantium ) and the Scottish Gaelic " dùn ", which means a fort.
Although initially cleared of any involvement in the murder, he was offered up by the conspirators and convicted at a show trial, after which he was executed by being hanged, drawn and quartered before each of his limbs was nailed to the gates of a different Scottish town.
During this siege, the famed Scottish captain of the Royal Navy Thomas Cochrane assisted the Spanish by putting his men into Castell de la Trinitat to help defend the town.
The two became a single local authority district in 1975, before Scottish Local Government reorganisation in the 1990s re-integrated them with Kirkintilloch and Bishopbriggs to form the East Dunbartonshire administrative area, although transport and social networks link the town much more closely with Glasgow itself.
Sir Arthur Chichester was appointed by the Earl of Essex to govern the castle and town in 1599 and was responsible for the plantation of English and Scottish peoples in the town, as well as the building of the town wall.
Scottish settlers arrived in large numbers and the town grew quickly.
town and Borders
* Melrose, Scotland ( the original Melrose ), a town in the Scottish Borders
Innerleithen () is a small town in the committee area of Tweeddale, in the Scottish Borders.
Melrose () is a small town and civil parish in the Scottish Borders, historically in Roxburghshire.
When a county council was established in 1890 the county town once more became Duns, where the former county's Sheriff Court still sits, and where the Scottish Borders Council still maintains a principal set of offices.
Eyemouth (, ) is a small town and civil parish in Berwickshire, in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland.
Jedburgh (;, is a town and former royal burgh in the Scottish Borders and historically in Roxburghshire.
The Royal Burgh of Lauder () is a town in the Scottish Borders 27 miles south east of Edinburgh.
The Royal Burgh of Selkirk () is a town in the Borders of Scotland.
The town is known for textile making, and is the location of Heriot-Watt University's School of Textiles and Design, Galashiels Academy and one campus of the Borders College, which as of 2009 has moved and now joins with the University.
There is some largely good-hearted rivalry between some of the Galashiels townsfolk and those of other border towns, particularly Hawick, the largest town in the Scottish Borders.
Coldstream (, ) is a small town in the Borders district of Scotland.
Duns ( historically, ) is the county town of the historic county of Berwickshire, within the Scottish Borders.
Borders College also have a small campus in the town.
Kelso is a town in the Scottish Borders, and for which many places are named.
* Kelso, Scottish Borders, a town and civil parish in the Scottish Borders
The summer festival in the Borders town of Duns is headed by the " Reiver " and " Reiver's Lass ", a young man and young woman elected from the inhabitants of the town and surrounding area.
The operation took its name, probably assigned at random from a list of pre-approved code names, from the town of Jedburgh in the Scottish Borders.
Greenlaw is a small town situated in the foothills of the Lammermuir Hills on Blackadder Water at the junction of the A697 and the A6105 in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland.
From 1975 to 1996, the town served as the administrative centre for the Ettrick and Lauderdale District of the Borders region.
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