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"Stow (Old Eng. 'place'), a village of SE Edinburghshire, and a parish partly also of Selkirkshire. On all sides sheltered by hills, the village lies, 580 feet above sea-level, near the left bank of Gala Water, and ¼ mile E of Stow station on the Waverley route of the North British railway, across the stream, this being 6 ¾ miles NNW of Galashiels and 26 ¾ (by road 24) SSE of Edinburgh. A pretty little place, of high antiquity, it has a post office, with money order, savings bank, and telegraph departments, a hotel, gassworks, three woollen mills, an engineering work, a bowling club, and hiring fairs on the last Monday of February and the second Tuesday of March.

The parish, containing Fountainhall, Bowland and Clovenfords stations, is bounded N by Fala and Soutra, NE by Channelkirk, E by Channelkirk, Lauder and Melrose, SE by Galashiels, S by Selkirk and Yarrow, SW and W by Innerleithen, and NW by Heriot, so that, while itself lying in two counties, it is in contact with three others - Haddington, Roxburgh and Peebles shires."

(Extract from Groomes Ordnance Gazetteer

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Church Records

The parish church has records for births dating from 1626, for marriages from 1641 and for deaths from 1722. These are held in the General Register Office for Scotland in Edinburgh and copies on microfilm may be consulted in the Midlothian Studies Centre in Loanhead and also in LDS Family History Centres around the world.

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Description & Travel

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Gazetteers

The transcription of the section for Stow from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.
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Maps

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference NT421468 (Lat/Lon: 55.711523, -2.923499), Stow which are provided by:

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Population

Below is a list of the population of Heriot parish and village in various years.

Parish

18011876
18311771
18612171
18712306
18812395
18912201

Village

1841408
1861397
1871435
1881440
1891421

 

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