Galashiels
Galashiels is a Town in the county of Scottish Borders.
There are great places to visit near Galashiels.
Galashiels History
There are some historic monuments around Galashiels:
- Torwoodlee, broch, fort & linear earthworks Prehistoric domestic and defensive: broch SM2448
- Cathpair,hut circles and field system 2500m and 2600m ESE of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: field or field system SM4504
- Sunderland Hall,cairn 1500m W of Prehistoric ritual and funerary: cairn (type uncertain) SM4537
- Linglie Hill,linear earthwork Prehistoric domestic and defensive: linear earthwork SM2298
- Eildon Hill North,fort & Roman signal station Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort); Roman: signal station SM2107
- Linglie,fort Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort) SM2234
- Faldonside to Kippielaw,linear earthwork Prehistoric domestic and defensive: linear earthwork SM2291
- Craigend,fort 360m W of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort) SM1168
- Rink Hill,fort 700m NE of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort) SM2260
- Philiphaugh, settlement and burial ground 150m S of Calton Cottage Ecclesiastical: burial ground, cemetery, graveyard; Secular: settlement, including deserted, depopulated and townships SM12981
- Caddonlee,fort Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort) SM2497
- Langshaw Tower and associated structures Secular: bell tower SM6829
- Cauldshiels Hill,fort Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort) SM1725
- Yair,fort,Oakbank Wood Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort) SM2122
- Old Redhead, deserted settlement 15m NE of and 25m ESE of Secular: settlement, including deserted, depopulated and townships SM13722
- Hollybush,earthwork Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM2258
- Lauder Barns,palisaded enclosure 550m SSW of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: palisaded enclosure SM3805
- Cairn Rig,cairn Prehistoric ritual and funerary: cairn (type uncertain) SM2284
- Watherston,fort Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort) SM1180
- Lindean,old church Ecclesiastical: church SM3246
- Our Lady's Chapel,chapel 350m N of Torsonce Ecclesiastical: chapel SM3942
- New Greenhill,fort Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort) SM2272
- Long Philip Burn,earthwork Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM2215
- Whytbank Tower, ancillary buildings and garden Secular: garden SM13723
- Colmslie Tower Secular: bell tower SM6828
- Windydoors Farm, Bastle Secular: bastle SM13691
- Rink Hill,fort Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort) SM2119
- Bell Hill,fort 910m NE of Smedheugh Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort) SM1724
- Craig Hill,enclosure Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM2103
- Buckholm Tower Secular: tower SM8715
- Torwoodlee Tower Secular: tower SM8687
- Stow,old bridge Secular: bridge SM2855
- Sunderland Hill,earthwork Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM2146
- Lindean,earthwork Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM2295
- Middlestead,earthwork Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM2398
- Bow Castle,broch 1000m E of Bow Prehistoric domestic and defensive: broch SM1162
- Peel Hill, motte and bailey castle, Selkirk Secular: motte SM2967
- St Mary's Church, Stow Ecclesiastical: church SM8215
- Brownmoor Glen,fort Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort) SM2225
- Howden,motte Secular: motte SM2256
- Philiphaugh,linear earthwork Prehistoric domestic and defensive: linear earthwork SM2213
- Melrose Abbey Ecclesiastical: abbey SM90214
- Corby Linn,earthwork Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM2216
- Huntly Burn,earthworks Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM2528
History of Galashiels
The town’s coat of arms shows two foxes reaching up to eat plums from a tree, and the motto is Sour Plums pronounced in Scots as soor plooms. It is a reference to an incident in 1337 when a raiding party of English soldiers were picking wild plums close to the town and were caught by Scots who came across them by chance and slaughtered them all.
