Peebles
Peebles is a town in the Scottish Borders, with a population in 2020 of 9000. The name is Brythonic: pebyll meant "tents" or a temporary dwelling place.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Richard Webb, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Neidpath Castle and Cross Kirk.
Neidpath Castle
Photo: Dannie Calder, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Neidpath Castle is an L-plan rubble-built tower house, overlooking the River Tweed about 1 mile west of Peebles in the Borders of Scotland. The castle is both a wedding venue and filming location and can be viewed by appointment.
Eastgate Hall Community Centre, Eastgate, Peebles
Theater building
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Eastgate Hall Community Centre, Eastgate, Peebles is a theater building.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cardrona and Lyne.
Cardrona
Village
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Cardrona is a village on the A72 and B7062, between Peebles and Innerleithen, in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland. Places nearby include Glentress, Kirkburn, Scottish Borders, Kirkhouse, Traquair, and Walkerburn. Cardrona is situated 3½ miles east of Peebles.
Lyne
Locality
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Lyne is a small village and civil parish in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland, 4 miles west of the market town of Peebles; it lies off the A72, in the old county of Peeblesshire and has an area of about 4 square miles. Lyne is situated 3 miles west of Peebles.
Peebles
- Type: Town with 8,380 residents
- Description: town in Scottish Borders, Scotland, UK
- Categories: small burgh and locality
- Location: Scottish Borders, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.6518° or 55° 39′ 6″ northLongitude
-3.1885° or 3° 11′ 19″ westPopulation
8,380Elevation
558 feet (170 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB PEEOpen location code
9C7RMR26+PHOpenStreetMap ID
node 59664556OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Peebles” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Peebles”
- Basque: “Peebles”
- Cebuano: “Peebles”
- Chinese: “皮布尔斯”
- Czech: “Peebles”
- Danish: “Peebles”
- Dutch: “Peebles”
- French: “Peebles”
- German: “Peebles”
- Irish: “Na Púballan”
- Irish: “Na Pùballan”
- Italian: “Peebles”
- Japanese: “ピーブルス”
- Japanese: “ピーブルズ”
- Korean: “피블스”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Peebles”
- Persian: “پیبلز”
- Polish: “Peebles”
- Russian: “Пиблс”
- Scots: “Peebles”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Na Pùballan”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Peebles”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Peebles”
- Slovak: “Peebles”
- Spanish: “Peebles”
- Swedish: “Peebles, Skottland”
- Swedish: “Peebles”
- Turkish: “Peebles”
- Welsh: “Na Pùballan”
- Welsh: “Peebles”
- “Peebles”
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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 “Peebles”. Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.