Town Trail

The new Galashiels Transport Interchange was commissioned by the Scottish Borders Council to provide facilities ...

The church of Our Lady and St Andrew, which was completed in 1858 and extended in 1870, was founded by Robert ...

Market Square, in the heart of the Galashiels town centre, has had many reincarnations and remodellings. The ...

The Galashiels Manufacturers’ Corporation, established in 1777, decided to construct a “mill lade”, a system ...

Cornmill Square is an important feature of the early 20th century, grouping together various monuments in the town ...

Bank Street’s original name was Scott’s Place but became Bank Street in 1825 when the National Bank, now the Royal ...

This memorial of Sir Walter Scott was commissioned by the Abbotsford Scott Fellowship in 1932 for the 100th ...

The bust of Robert Burns was created by F.W. Doyle-Jones in 1912 and commemorates Burns' re-writing of the song ...

This building was the site of the house of the Gala Estate’s miller. The original Burgh Building is the two-storey ...

The Bow Butt steps, which may date back to the 15th century, are where the men of Galashiels, aged 16-60, used to ...

Built in 1636 by Captain Hugh Scott of Gala, it was a family burial vault. The Aisle was to the side of the main ...

In 1851, a group of people started meeting for worship in the lower flat of a house in Wilderhaugh, elsewhere in ...