Melrose
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Walter Baxter, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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- Type: Town with 2,310 residents
- Description: town in Scottish Borders, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Melrose, Scottish Borders”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Eildon Hill and Harmony Garden.
Eildon Hill
Archaeological site
Photo: Jenny Gumbrell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Eildon Hill lies just south of Melrose, Scotland in the Scottish Borders, overlooking the town. The name is usually pluralised into "the Eildons" or "Eildon Hills", because of its triple peak.
Harmony Garden
Garden
Photo: Colin Park, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Harmony Garden is the garden of Harmony Hall which is in the town of Melrose, in the Scottish Borders, administered by the National Trust for Scotland.
Borders General Hospital
Hospital
Photo: Walter Baxter, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Borders General Hospital is a district general hospital on the outskirts of Melrose, Scotland. It is managed by NHS Borders.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Galashiels and Newtown St Boswells.
Galashiels
Photo: John Brewer, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.
Newtown St Boswells
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Newtown St Boswells is a village in the Scottish Borders council area, in south-east Scotland. The village lies south of the Eildon Hills on the Sprouston and Newtown burns, approximately 40 miles south-east of Edinburgh. Newtown St Boswells is situated 2½ miles southeast of Melrose.
Earlston
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Earlston is a civil parish and market town in the county of Berwickshire, within the Scottish Borders. It is on the River Leader in Lauderdale, Scotland. Earlston is situated 3½ miles northeast of Melrose.
Melrose
- Categories: small burgh and locality
- Location: Scottish Borders, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
55.5976° or 55° 35′ 51″ northLongitude
-2.72° or 2° 43′ 12″ westPopulation
2,310Elevation
318 feet (97 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB MLROpen location code
9C7VH7XJ+22OpenStreetMap ID
node 33609174OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Yue Chinese—“Melrose” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Մելրոուզ”
- Asturian: “Melrose”
- Basque: “Melrose”
- Catalan: “Melrose (Escòcia)”
- Catalan: “Melrose”
- Cebuano: “Melrose”
- Chinese: “梅尔罗斯”
- Chinese: “梅爾羅斯”
- Dutch: “Melrose”
- French: “Melrose”
- German: “Melrose”
- Hebrew: “מלרוז”
- Hungarian: “Melrose”
- Irish: “Maol Ros”
- Irish: “Maolros”
- Italian: “Melrose”
- Japanese: “メルローズ (スコットランド)”
- Japanese: “メルローズ (スコティッシュ・ボーダーズ)”
- Japanese: “メルローズ (ロクスバラシャー)”
- Japanese: “メルローズ”
- Korean: “멜로즈”
- Latvian: “Melrouza”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Melrose”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Melrose i Skottland”
- Norwegian: “Melrose”
- Polish: “Melrose”
- Portuguese: “Melrose (cidade da Escócia)”
- Portuguese: “Melrose”
- Romanian: “Melrose”
- Russian: “Мелроз”
- Russian: “Мелроуз”
- Scots: “Mewries”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Maolros”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Meall-Ros”
- Slovenian: “Melrose, Škotska”
- Spanish: “Melrose”
- Swedish: “Melrose, Skottland”
- Swedish: “Melrose”
- Welsh: “Melrose”
- Western Frisian: “Melrose”
- Yue Chinese: “梅爾羅斯”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Melrose”. Photo: LeCardinal, CC BY 3.0.