Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Stow

Stow, vil. with ry. sta., Edinburghshire, and par., partly also in Selkirkshire - par., 36,843 ac., pop. 2395; vil., on Gala Water, 6f miles N. of Galashiels and 26¾ miles SE. of Edinburgh by rail, pop. 440; has a town-hall and woollen mills.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "village with railway station"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Midlothian County
Place: Stow

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