Peebles

Peebles

Peebles , town (1991 pop. 6,750), Scottish Borders, S Scotland, at the confluence of Eddleston Water and the Tweed River. It is a mountain resort and a farm market with woolen mills. Ruins of a 13th-century church and castle remain.

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Peebles, Canada, UK, USA UK (Scotland): formerly Pebles and derived from the Welsh pabell, plural pebyll ‘tents’ to give ‘(Place of) Shelter’. In the English a final s has been added.

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Peebles Sc. Bord. Pebles c.1125. ‘(Place with) tents’. Welsh pabell (plural pebyll), with English plural -s.

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Peebles

Peebles former county, Scotland: see Peeblesshire .

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