Walkerburn
Sign in to saveWalkerburn () is a small village in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland, on the A72 about from Peebles and from Galashiels.
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Place details
- Locality
- Walkerburn
- Region
- Alba / Scotland
- Country
- United Kingdom
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- UK place.country
- Scotland
- UK place.official_name
- Walkerburn
- UK place.gaelic_name
- Allt an Fhùcadair
- UK place.map_type
- Scotland
- UK place.population_ref
- ()
- UK place.unitary_scotland
- Scottish Borders
- UK place.post_town
- WALKERBURN
- UK place.postcode_district
- EH43
- UK place.postcode_area
- EH
- UK place.dial_code
- 01896
- UK place.static_image_name
- Walkerburn.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- Walkerburn, seen from Minch Moor
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- village
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- +740
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
- Body of water
- River Tweed
- Image
- Walkerburn.jpg
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- P7959
- Peeblesshire
- P8168
- travel trailer
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Article
21 sectionsContents
- History
- Early history
- Middle Ages to Great War
- 1914-1918, The Great War, Tartan, Khaki and Flannel
- 1920-1921, The Hydro Electric Scheme
- 1920s and 1930s, The Boom and Bust Years, Charleston and Jitterbug
- 1939-1945, Another War, More Tartan
- 1950s, You’ve never had it so good…
- 1960s and 1970s, The Slow Decline
- Into the 21st Century
- Other
- The Myth of Muckle Mou'd Meg
- Ancient Stones
- The Coot Stone
- The Basin Stone
- The Cheese Well
- Flood History
- Gallery
- See also
- References
- External links
Walkerburn () is a small village in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland, on the A72 about from Peebles and from Galashiels.
It was founded in 1854 to house the workers for the tweed mills owned by the Ballantyne family. It is the home of the Ballantyne Memorial Institute.