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Peebles (Scottish Gaelic: Na Pùballan) [3] is a town in the Scottish Borders, Scotland. ... The Tweed flows west to east, and the Eddleston flows from the north ...
Eddleston (Scottish Gaelic: Baile Ghille Mhoire) is a small village and civil parish in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland. It lies 4 miles (6.4 km) north of Peebles and 9 miles (14 km) south of Penicuik on the A703 , which passes through the centre of the village.
The Great Polish Map of Scotland is a large (50 m x 40 m) three-dimensional, outdoor concrete scale model of Scotland, located in the grounds of the Barony Castle Hotel, outside the village of Eddleston near Peebles in the Scottish Borders. [1] It is also known as the Mapa Scotland (derived from Polish mapa Szkocji) or the Barony Map.
Eddleston Water rises near Mount Lothian and passes through Waterheads, Eddleston, Milkieston, Redscarhead, along the route of the A703, and into Peebles past crossburn, and Dalatho, where the Tree Bridge, on an old drove road, [3] and the Cuddy Bridge (just by brown brothers and squeaks old bit) cross it. The original bridge was constructed in ...
During the Second World War, Black Barony at Eddleston near Peebles was requisitioned for military use and in 1942 became The Polish Higher Military School used for staff officer training. Poland had been invaded by Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia and Slovakia. Many Polish military personnel escaped via Romania to France and the United Kingdom ...
Peeblesshire (Scottish Gaelic: Siorrachd nam Pùballan), the County of Peebles or Tweeddale is a historic county of Scotland. Its county town is Peebles , and it borders Midlothian to the north, Selkirkshire to the east, Dumfriesshire to the south, and Lanarkshire to the west.
Northshield Rings is a prehistoric site, a hillfort near the village of Eddleston and about 6 miles (10 km) north of Peebles, in the Scottish Borders, Scotland. It is a Scheduled Monument . [ 1 ]
The Tweed Bridge is the only road crossing of the Tweed within Peebles. [2] It carries the B7062 public road, which is two lanes wide at this point. [10] Near to the Tweed Bridge is the Cuddy Bridge, a single arch bridge over the Eddleston Water, a tributary of the Tweed. [11]