Galashiels
Galashiels is a town in the Scottish Borders, 33 miles south of Edinburgh. It's a former mill town which is now part of commuterland for the city, and in 2016 had a population of about 12,600.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 15,000 residents
- Description: town in Scottish Borders, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Gafashiels” and “Gala”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Galashiels railway station and Old Gala House.
Galashiels railway station
Railway station
Galashiels is a railway station on the Borders Railway, which runs between Edinburgh Waverley and Tweedbank. The station, situated 33 miles 22 chains south-east of Edinburgh Waverley, serves the town of Galashiels in Scottish Borders, Scotland.
Old Gala House
Museum
Photo: Iain Lees, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Old Gala House is a museum and conference centre situated in the Old Town area of Galashiels in the Scottish Borders. The building was originally built as a tower house in 1457 by the Hoppringill family, who had been granted the lands of Gala by the Earl of Douglas.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Melrose and Tweedbank.
Melrose
Photo: LeCardinal, CC BY 3.0.
Melrose is a town in the Borders Region of southern Scotland, with a population of 2,510 in 2016. It's nowadays a commuter town for Edinburgh, and service town for the Borders General Hospital.
Tweedbank
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Tweedbank is a large village south-east of Galashiels in the Scottish Borders. It is part of the county of Roxburghshire. It is an outer suburb of Galashiels, on the other side of the River Tweed. The population of Tweedbank at the latest census is 2,101.
Darnick
Village
Photo: Walter Baxter, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Darnick is a village near Melrose in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland, in the former Roxburghshire. The name was first recorded in 1124, and has changed from Dernewic, Dernwick and Darnwick to the present Darnick. Darnick is situated 2½ miles southeast of Galashiels.
Galashiels
- Categories: small burgh and locality
- Location: Scottish Borders, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.6157° or 55° 36′ 56″ northLongitude
-2.8062° or 2° 48′ 22″ westPopulation
15,000Elevation
390 feet (119 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB GAHOpen location code
9C7VJ58V+7GOpenStreetMap ID
node 248674447OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Galashiels” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “غالاشيلز”
- Armenian: “Գալաշիլս”
- Asturian: “Galashiels”
- Basque: “Galashiels”
- Bengali: “গালাশিলস”
- Bulgarian: “Галашиелс”
- Catalan: “Galashiels”
- Cebuano: “Galashiels”
- Chinese: “加勒希尔斯”
- Chinese: “加勒希爾斯”
- Chinese: “加拉希尔斯”
- Czech: “Galashiels”
- Danish: “Galashiels”
- Dutch: “Galashiels”
- Faroese: “Galashiels”
- French: “Galashiels”
- German: “Galashiels”
- Gujarati: “ગાલાશિલ્સ”
- Hebrew: “גלאשילס”
- Icelandic: “Galashiels”
- Irish: “An Geal Áth”
- Irish: “An Geal Àth”
- Irish: “Galashiels”
- Italian: “Galashiels”
- Japanese: “ガラシールズ”
- Japanese: “ラングリー”
- Kalaallisut: “Galashiels”
- Kannada: “ಗ್ಯಾಲಾಶಿಯಲ್ಸ್”
- Korean: “갈라쉴드”
- Lithuanian: “Galašelis”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Galashiels”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Galashiels”
- Norwegian: “Galashiels”
- Persian: “گلشیلز”
- Polish: “Galashiels”
- Portuguese: “Galashiels”
- Russian: “Галашилс”
- Russian: “Галашильс”
- Scots: “Gala”
- Scots: “Galashiels”
- Scots: “Gallae”
- Scottish Gaelic: “An Geal Ath”
- Scottish Gaelic: “An Geal Àth”
- Scottish Gaelic: “An Geal-àth”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Galashiels”
- Slovak: “Galashiels”
- Spanish: “Galashiels”
- Swedish: “Galashiels”
- Tamil: “கால்ஷிஎல்ஸ்”
- Telugu: “గాళ శిల్స్”
- Ukrainian: “Галашилс”
- Urdu: “جالاشییلس”
- Urdu: “گالاشیلز”
- Welsh: “Galashiels”
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