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Galashiels

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Galashiels (Gallae, An Geal Àth) is a town in the Scottish Borders and historic county of Selkirkshire, on the Gala Water river. [1]

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A68 road

The A68 is a major road in the United Kingdom, running from Darlington in England to the A720 in Edinburgh.

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A7 road (Great Britain)

The A7 is a major trunk road in the United Kingdom, that runs south from Edinburgh in Central Scotland to Carlisle in North West England.

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A72 road

The A72 road is a major route in Scotland connecting Hamilton in South Lanarkshire, with Galashiels in the Scottish Borders.

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Abbotsford House

Abbotsford is a historic country house in the Scottish Borders, near Melrose, on the south bank of the River Tweed.

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Ancient Rome

In historiography, ancient Rome is Roman civilization from the founding of the city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD, encompassing the Roman Kingdom, Roman Republic and Roman Empire until the fall of the western empire.

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Andrew John Herbertson

Prof Andrew John Herbertson FRSE FRGS FRMS (1865-1915) was a British geographer.

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Andrew Murdison

Andrew Murdison was a Scottish rugby union and professional rugby league footballer of the 1920s.

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Anne Redpath

Anne Redpath (1895–1965) was a Scottish artist whose vivid domestic still lifes are among her best-known works.

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Archie Cochrane

Archibald Leman Cochrane CBE (12 January 1909 – 18 June 1988) was a Scottish doctor noted for his book Effectiveness and Efficiency: Random Reflections on Health Services.

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Arthur Lapworth

Arthur Lapworth FRS (10 October 1872 – 5 April 1941) was a Scottish chemist.

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Asda

Asda Stores Ltd. trading as Asda, is a British supermarket retailer, headquartered in Leeds, West Yorkshire.

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Association football

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball.

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Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk (UK Parliament constituency)

Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk is a constituency of the British House of Commons, located in the south of Scotland within the Scottish Borders council area.

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Boots UK

Boots UK (formerly Boots the Chemists Ltd), trading as Boots, is a pharmacy chain in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Norway, Thailand and other territories.

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Borders College

Borders College is a further education institution in the Scottish Borders, Scotland.

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Borders Railway

The Borders Railway connects the city of Edinburgh with Galashiels and Tweedbank in the Scottish Borders.

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Brian Shillinglaw

Robert Brian Shillinglaw, nicknamed "Shill", (1 July 1939 – 17 October 2007) was a Scottish rugby union, and rugby league footballer of the 1950s and 1960s.

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Broch

A broch is an Iron Age drystone hollow-walled structure of a type found only in Scotland.

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Brutalist architecture

Brutalist architecture flourished from 1951 to 1975, having descended from the modernist architectural movement of the early 20th century.

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Bryan Redpath

Bryan William Redpath (born 2 July 1971 in Galashiels) is a former rugby union player and coach.

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Buckholm

Buckholm is a farm near to the A7, in the Scottish Borders, Galashiels area of Scotland.

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Cantilever

A cantilever is a rigid structural element, such as a beam or a plate, anchored at one end to a (usually vertical) support from which it protrudes; this connection could also be perpendicular to a flat, vertical surface such as a wall.

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Carlisle, Cumbria

Carlisle (or from Cumbric: Caer Luel Cathair Luail) is the county town of Cumbria.

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Catrail

The Catrail is a linear earthwork in Roxburghshire, southern Scotland.

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Chris Paterson

Christopher Douglas Paterson, MBE (born 30 March 1978 in Edinburgh) is an ambassador and specialist coach for the Scotland and Edinburgh rugby union teams.

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Clovenfords

Clovenfords is a village in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland, a mile north of the hamlet of Caddonfoot and four miles west of the town Galashiels.

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Cockburnspath

Cockburnspath is a village in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland.

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Coulter's Candy

"Coulter's Candy", also known as "Ally Bally" or "Ally Bally Bee", is a Scots folk song.

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Craig Chalmers

Craig Minto Chalmers (born 15 October 1968) is a former Scottish rugby union footballer for Melrose and former coach of the club.

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Danny Galbraith

Daniel William Galbraith (born 19 August 1990) is a Scottish professional footballer who plays as a winger.

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Darnick

Darnick is a village near Melrose in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland, in the former Roxburghshire.

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Douglas Ford (British army officer)

Captain Douglas Ford (1918–1943) was a Royal Scots officer and British prisoner of war in World War II, who was posthumously awarded the George Cross for conspicuous gallantry.

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Edinburgh

Edinburgh (Dùn Èideann; Edinburgh) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 council areas.

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Elizabeth II

Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; born 21 April 1926) is Queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland judges to be "eminently distinguished in their subject".

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Fish (singer)

Derek William Dick (born 25 April 1958), better known by his stage name Fish, is a Scottish singer-songwriter and occasional actor.

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Gala Fairydean Rovers F.C.

Gala Fairydean Rovers Football Club are a Scottish association football club based in the town of Galashiels in the Scottish Borders.

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Gala RFC

Gala Rugby Football Club is a rugby union team based in Galashiels in the Scottish Borders.

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Gala Water

The Gala Water (Lowland Scots: Gala Watter; Scottish Gaelic An Geal Ath) is a river in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland and a tributary of the River Tweed.

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Galashiels

Galashiels (Gallae, An Geal Àth) is a town in the Scottish Borders and historic county of Selkirkshire, on the Gala Water river.

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Galashiels Academy

Galashiels Academy is the high school in Galashiels, Scotland, that serves the surrounding area as well as Stow (which does not have its own high school).

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Galashiels Golf Club

Galashiels Golf Club is a golf course to the north of Galashiels, Scotland.

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Galashiels railway station

Galashiels railway station serves the town of Galashiels in the Scottish Borders region of Scotland.

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Gattonside

Gattonside is a small village in the Scottish Borders.

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Glasite

The Glasites or Glassites were a small Christian church founded in about 1730 in Scotland by John Glas.

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Gregor Townsend

Gregor Peter John Townsend, (born 26 April 1973 in Galashiels) is a Scottish rugby union coach and former player.

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Halfords

Halfords Group plc is a British retailer of car parts, car enhancement, camping and touring equipment and bicycles operating in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

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Hawick

Hawick (Haaick, Hamhaig) is a town in the Scottish Borders council area and historic county of Roxburghshire in the east Southern Uplands of Scotland.

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Heriot-Watt University

Heriot-Watt University is a public university based in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Innerleithen

Innerleithen (Inbhir Leitheann) is a civil parish and a small town in the committee area of Tweeddale, in the Scottish Borders.

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Jimmy Curran

James Michael Curran (January 7, 1880 – February 7, 1963) was an athletics coach, best known for training five Olympic gold medallists.

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John Collins (footballer, born 1968)

John Angus Paul Collins (born 31 January 1968) is a Scottish football player and coach.

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John's Not Mad

John's Not Mad is a QED documentary made by the BBC in 1989.

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Judith Miller (antiques expert)

Judith Miller (born 16 September 1951) is an antiques expert, writer and broadcaster based in the UK.

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Kayleigh

"Kayleigh" is a song by the British neo-progressive rock band Marillion.

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List of places in Scotland

This List of places in Scotland is a complete collection of lists of places in Scotland.

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List of places in the Scottish Borders

This list of places in the Scottish Borders includes towns, villages, hamlets, castles, golf courses, historic houses, hillforts, lighthouses, nature reserves, reservoirs, rivers, and other places of interest in the Scottish Borders council area of Scotland.

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Long-distance trail

A long-distance trail (or long-distance track, path, footpath or greenway) is a longer recreational trail mainly through rural areas, used for non-motorized recreational walking, backpacking, cycling, horse riding or cross-country skiing.

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Marillion

Marillion are a British rock band, formed in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, in 1979.

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Matalan

Matalan is a British fashion and homeware retailer based in Knowsley, United Kingdom.

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McDonald's

McDonald's is an American fast food company, founded in 1940 as a restaurant operated by Richard and Maurice McDonald, in San Bernardino, California, United States.

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Melrose, Scottish Borders

Melrose (Maolros, "bald moor") is a small town and civil parish in the Scottish Borders, historically in Roxburghshire.

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Midlothian South, Tweeddale and Lauderdale (Scottish Parliament constituency)

Midlothian South, Tweeddale and Lauderdale is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood).

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Moffat

Moffat (Scottish Gaelic: Am Magh Fada, "The Long Plain") is a former burgh in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, lying on the River Annan, with a population of around 2,500.

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Multiplex (movie theater)

A multiplex is a movie theater complex with multiple screens within a single complex.

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National Records of Scotland

National Records of Scotland is a non-ministerial department of the Scottish Government.

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Netherdale

Netherdale is a sports complex in Galashiels, Scottish Borders, consisting of two adjacent stadiums used for rugby union and football.

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Newstead, Scottish Borders

Newstead is a village in the Scottish Borders, about east of Melrose.

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Next plc

Next, styled as next, is a British multinational clothing, footwear and home products retailer headquartered in Enderby, Leicestershire.

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Oceanic climate

An oceanic or highland climate, also known as a marine or maritime climate, is the Köppen classification of climate typical of west coasts in higher middle latitudes of continents, and generally features cool summers (relative to their latitude) and cool winters, with a relatively narrow annual temperature range and few extremes of temperature, with the exception for transitional areas to continental, subarctic and highland climates.

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Paton Street drill hall, Galashiels

The Paton Street drill hall is a military installation in Galashiels, Scotland.

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Pedestrian zone

Pedestrian zones (also known as auto-free zones and car-free zones, and as pedestrian precincts in British English) are areas of a city or town reserved for pedestrian-only use and in which most or all automobile traffic may be prohibited.

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Peebles

Peebles (Na Pùballan) is a royal burgh in Peeblesshire, of which it is the county town, within the Scottish Borders region.

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Peter Womersley

Peter Womersley (24 June 1923–1993) was a British architect, best known for his work in the modernist style.

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Picts

The Picts were a tribal confederation of peoples who lived in what is today eastern and northern Scotland during the Late Iron Age and Early Medieval periods.

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Q.E.D. (UK TV series)

Q.E.D. (quod erat demonstrandum, Latin for "that which was to be demonstrated") was the name of a strand of BBC popular science documentary films which aired in the United Kingdom from 1982 to 1999.

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Radio Borders

Radio Borders is a radio station broadcasting to the Scottish Borders and North Northumberland from studios in Tweedbank, just outside Galashiels.

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River Tweed

The River Tweed, or Tweed Water (Abhainn Thuaidh, Watter o Tweid), is a river long that flows east across the Border region in Scotland and northern England.

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Robert Burns

Robert Burns (25 January 175921 July 1796), also known as Rabbie Burns, the Bard of Ayrshire, Ploughman Poet and various other names and epithets, was a Scottish poet and lyricist.

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Robert Lorimer

Sir Robert Stodart Lorimer, KBE (4 November 1864 – 13 September 1929) was a prolific Scottish architect and furniture designer noted for his sensitive restorations of historic houses and castles, for new work in Scots Baronial and Gothic Revival styles, and for promotion of the Arts and Crafts movement.

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Ross Kelly (presenter)

Ross Kelly is a Scottish born presenter, who appeared on Lookaround, GMTV (1993-2000) and The Heaven and Earth Show.

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Roxburgh, Ettrick and Lauderdale

Roxburgh, Ettrick and Lauderdale (Rosbrog, Eadaraig agus Srath Labhdair in Scottish Gaelic) is a lieutenancy area of Scotland.

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Rugby union

Rugby union, commonly known in most of the world as rugby, is a contact team sport which originated in England in the first half of the 19th century.

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Russell Fairgrieve

Sir Thomas Russell Fairgrieve CBE (3 May 1924 – 17 February 1999) was a Scottish Conservative and Unionist politician.

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Ryan Mania

Ryan Mania is a Scottish/British National Hunt jockey from Galashiels, most famous for winning the 2013 Grand National on the Sue Smith-trained Auroras Encore, at starting odds of 66/1.

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Scilla Elworthy

Priscilla "Scilla" Elworthy (born 3 June 1943) is a peace builder, and the founder of the Oxford Research Group, a non-governmental organisation she set up in 1982 to develop effective dialogue between nuclear weapons policy-makers worldwide and their critics, for which she was nominated three times for the Nobel Peace Prize.

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Scottish Borders

The Scottish Borders (The Mairches, "The Marches"; Scottish Gaelic: Crìochan na h-Alba) is one of 32 council areas of Scotland.

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Scottish Parliament

The Scottish Parliament (Pàrlamaid na h-Alba; Scots: The Scots Pairlament) is the devolved national, unicameral legislature of Scotland.

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Selkirk, Scottish Borders

Selkirk is a town and historic Royal Burgh in the Scottish Borders Council district of southeastern Scotland.

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Selkirkshire

Selkirkshire or the County of Selkirk (Siorrachd Shalcraig) is a historic county and registration county of Scotland.

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Sir Walter Scott Way

The Sir Walter Scott Way is a long distance path in the Scottish Borders of Scotland, in memory of Sir Walter Scott, one of Scotland's greatest writers.

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Soor ploom

A Soor ploom (Scots for "sour plum") is a sharp flavoured, round, green boiled sweet originally associated with Galashiels, Scotland.

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Southern Upland Way

The Southern Upland Way is a coast-to-coast walk in Scotland between Portpatrick in the west, and Cockburnspath in the east.

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Subway (restaurant)

Subway is an American privately held fast food restaurant franchise that primarily sells submarine sandwiches (subs) and salads.

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Tesco

Tesco plc, trading as Tesco, is a British multinational groceries and general merchandise retailer with headquarters in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom.

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Textile

A textile is a flexible material consisting of a network of natural or artificial fibres (yarn or thread).

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Thomas J Clapperton

Thomas J Clapperton FRBS (14 October 1879 – 1962) was a Scottish sculptor, famous for the statue of Robert the Bruce at the entrance of Edinburgh Castle erected in 1929.

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Thomas Paterson Noble

Prof Thomas Paterson Noble FRCSE FRSE OWE (1887–1959) was a Scottish surgeon who served Prajadhipok, the King of Siam.

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Torwoodlee Broch

Torwoodlee Broch is the remains of an iron-age broch located near the town of Galashiels in the Scottish Borders.

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Trunk road

A trunk road, trunk highway, or strategic road is a major road, usually connecting two or more cities, ports, airports and other places, which is the recommended route for long-distance and freight traffic.

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Tweedbank

Tweedbank (Bruach Thuaidh) is a large village south-east of Galashiels in the Scottish Borders, Scotland.

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University of Oxford

The University of Oxford (formally The Chancellor Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford) is a collegiate research university located in Oxford, England.

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Walter Scott

Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832) was a Scottish historical novelist, playwright, poet and historian.

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Waverley Route

The Waverley Route was a railway line that ran south from Edinburgh, through Midlothian and the Scottish Borders, to Carlisle.

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2013 Grand National

The 2013 Grand National (officially known as the John Smith's Grand National for sponsorship reasons) was the 166th annual running of the Grand National horse race at Aintree Racecourse near Liverpool, England.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galashiels

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