Scotland Genealogy: Peeblesshire Census & County Records
PEEBLES-SHIRE, or Tweeddale, an inland county in the southern
division of Scotland. It is bounded on the north and north-east
by Edinburghshire; on the east and south-east by Selkirkshire;
on the south by Dumfries-shire; and on the south-west and
west by Lanarkshire ... The surface of Peebles-shire, regarded
in the aggregate, is higher than that of any other county
in the south of Scotland. It is chiefly an assemblage of single
hills, clusters of hills, and ranges of mountains, which direct
their spurs and their terminations to every point of the compass.
The lowest ground is in the narrow vale of the Tweed, immediately
within the boundary with Selkirkshire, and lies between 400
and 500 feet above sea-level.
[Imperial Gazetteer of Scotland, edited by John Marius
Wilson, 1868]
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