Details of Kelso

Kelso

Classification and Statistics

Settlement Type: small town

Population (2001): 5116

(1991): 5989

(1981): 5647

(1971): 4852

(1961): 3968

(1951): 4119

(1881): 4687

(1871): 4564

(1861): 4309

(1851): 4783

(1841): 5328

(1821): 4860

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Text of Entry Updated: 25-AUG-2009

Location

Latitude: 55.5997°N Longitude: 2.4332°W

National Grid Reference: NT 728 341

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References and Further Reading
Cruft, Kitty, John Dunbar and Richard Fawcett (eds.) (2006) The Buildings of Scotland: Borders. Yale University Press, New Haven and London
Moffat, Alistair (1985) Kelsae: A History of Kelso from Earliest Times. Mainstream Publishing, Edinburgh

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Related Entries

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( 18 Attractions, 1 Council Area, 1 Historical County, 2 Families, 14 Features, 25 Parishes, 24 People and 28 Settlements )
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Attractions:	Borders Abbeys Way Floors Castle Hundy Mundy Hunter Bridge James Thomson Memorial Kalemouth Suspension Bridge Kelso Abbey Kelso Bridge Kelso Racecourse	Kilwinning Abbey Kilwinning Abbey Tower Heritage Centre Mellerstain Roxburgh Castle Roxburghe Golf Course, The Scott Douglas Mausoleum Shedden Park Turret House Tweed Junction Pool
Council Area:	Scottish Borders
Families:	Innes	Kerr
Features:	Border Union Showground Cross Keys Hotel Ednam House Hotel Kale Water Kelso Health Centre Kelso Town Hall Linton Hill	Springwood Hall Springwood Park St Andrew's (Episcopal) Church Sweethope Hill Teviot, River Tweed, River Yetholm
Historical Counties:	Roxburghshire
Parishes:	Coldstream Crailing Earlston Eccles Eckford Ednam Gordon Greenlaw Hownam Hume Jedburgh Kelso Legerwood	Linton Makerstoun Melrose Mertoun Morebattle Nenthorn Oxnam Roxburgh Smailholm Sprouston Stichill Yetholm
People:	William Adam James Ballantyne John Ballantyne Rev. Horatius (Horace) Bonar James Brunlees James Dickson Sir William Fairbairn King James II King James III John Ker (1st Duke of Roxburghe) Sir Henry James Sumner Maine John Moffatt	William Henry (W.H.) Ogilvie William Henry Playfair Thomas Pringle Sir William Purves Sir Henry Raeburn John Rennie Sir Walter Scott Edward Seymour (Earl of Hertford; 1st Duke of Somerset) Prof. Robert Allan Smith James Thomson Sir John Vanbrugh David de Bernham
Settlements:	Birgham Carham Coldstream Ednam Galashiels Gordon Hawick Heiton Hoselaw Hume Innerleithen Jedburgh Kirk Yetholm Lempitlaw	Makerstoun Manorhill Maxwellheugh Melrose Morebattle Nenthorn Roxburgh Rutherford Selkirk Smailholm Sprouston Stichill Town Yetholm Wooden

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