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The name Hawick is Old English in origin, first recorded in 1167 and translates as "enclosed farm" or "enclosed hamlet". [4] The origin of the name of Hawick was first researched in the 1860s by James Murray, a local teacher and later the primary editor of the Oxford English Dictionary. [5]
Hawick Town Hall is a municipal building in the High Street, Hawick, Scotland. The structure, which served as the meeting place of Hawick Burgh Council, is a Category A listed building . [ 1 ]
Hawick Burghs was a district of burghs constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1868 until 1918. It consisted of the Roxburghshire burgh of Hawick and the Selkirkshire burghs of Galashiels and Selkirk .
Hawick Library is housed in the building built in 1904 in Hawick and it was one of the many libraries funded by Andrew Carnegie. The library is a Category B listed building. [ 1 ] The library, designed by J N Scott and Alexander Lorne Campbell , is a 2-storey, rectangular-plan Free Style library with a prominent corner entrance tower and round ...
The equestrian monument in Hawick, commemorating the defeat of a group of English border reivers in 1514, and bearing the motto "Teribus Teriodin".. Teribus ye teri odin or teribus an teriodin (Scots pronunciation: [ˈtirɪbəs ən ˌtiri ˈodɪn]) is popularly believed to have been the war cry of the men of Hawick at the Battle of Flodden, [1] and has been preserved in the traditions of the ...
Upload another image Tower Knowe, Drumlanrig's Tower, Including Boundary Walls And Railings To S 55°25′17″N 2°47′17″W / 55.421327°N 2.787932°W / 55.421327; -2.787932 (Tower Knowe, Drumlanrig's Tower, Including Boundary Walls And Railings To S) Category B 34624 Upload Photo 4 And 6 High Street 55°25′18″N 2°47′16″W / 55.421643°N 2.787749°W / 55 ...
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Burnfoot (Scottish Gaelic: Bun na h-Aibhne, Scots: Burnfit) is a housing estate just east of the A7, in the northern part of Hawick, by the Boonraw Burn, in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland. Wilton Dean and Stirches were also villages surrounding Hawick. Burnfoot was built as a council estate between the 1950s and 1970s and is now mostly ...