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COLDSTREAM

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 665 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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COLDSTREAM , a See also:

police See also:burgh of See also:Berwickshire, See also:Scotland. Pop. (1901) 1482. It is situated on the See also:north See also:bank of the See also:Tweed, here spanned by See also:John See also:Smeaton's See also:fine See also:bridge of five See also:arches, erected in, 1763–1766, 131 M. See also:south-See also:west of See also:Berwick by the North Eastern railway. The See also:chief public buildings are the See also:town See also:hall, library, See also:mechanics' See also:institute, and cottage See also:hospital. Some See also:brewing is carried on. Owing to its position on the Border and also as the first See also:ford of any consequence above Berwick, the town played a prominent See also:part in Scottish See also:history during many centuries. Here See also:Edward U crossed the stream in 1296 with his to the See also:financial disappointment of many, conferred a See also:great benefit upon the See also:metropolis by originating the See also:scheme for the erection of the Royal See also:Albert Hall. He was active in See also:founding the See also:national training See also:schools for See also:cookery and See also:music, the latter the germ of the Royal See also:College of Music. He edited the See also:works of his benefactor See also:Peacock; and was in his younger days largely connected with the See also:press, and the author of many useful topographical handbooks published under the See also:pseudonym of " See also:Felix Summerly." He died on the 18th of See also:April 1882.

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