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GALASHIELS , a municipal and See also:

police See also:burgh of See also:Selkirkshire, See also:Scotland. Pop. (1891) 17,367; (1901) 13,615. It is situated on Gala See also:Water, within a See also:short distance of its junction with the See also:Tweed. 33 M. S.S.E. of See also:Edinburgh by the See also:North See also:British railway. The See also:town stretches for more than 2 M. along both See also:banks of the See also:river, the See also:mills and factories occupying the valley by the stream, the villas and better-class houses the high-lying ground on either See also:side. The See also:principal structures include the municipal buildings, See also:corn See also:exchange, library, public See also:hall, and the See also:market See also:cross. The town is under the See also:control of a See also:provost, baffles and See also:council, and, along with See also:Hawick and See also:Selkirk, forms the Hawick (or Border) See also:group of See also:parliamentary burghs. The woollen manufactures, dating from the See also:close of the 16th See also:century, are the most important in Scotland, though now mainly confined to the See also:weaving of tweeds. Other leading See also:industries are See also:hosiery, tanning (with the largest yards in Scotland), See also:dyeing, See also:iron and See also:brass See also:founding, See also:engineering and See also:boot-making. Originally a See also:village built for the See also:accommodation of pilgrims to See also:Melrose See also:Abbey (4 M.

E. by S.), it became, See also:

early in the 15th century, an occasional See also:residence of the Douglases, who were then keepers of See also:Ettrick See also:Forest, and whose See also:peel-See also:tower was not demolished till 1814. Galashiels was created into a burgh of See also:barony in 1599. The Catrail or Picts' See also:Work begins near the town and passes immediatelyto the See also:west. Cloven-fords, 3' m. W., is noted for the Tweed vineries, which are heated by 5 m. of water-pipes, and See also:supply the See also:London market throughout the See also:winter. Two See also:miles farther W. by S. is Ashestiel, where See also:Sir See also:Walter See also:Scott resided from 1804 to 1812, where he wrote his most famous poems and began Waverley, and which he See also:left for Abbots-See also:ford.

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