Qualla: Peebles https://qualla.com/peebles en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:16 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Peebles https://qualla.com/peebles Peebles: Introduction https://qualla.com/peebles/ Contra Nando Incrementum. The Latin curls around three salmon on a red shield, one fish facing forward and two facing back, and the motto translates to something stranger than it sounds: there is growth by swimming against the stream. The arms appeared on Peebles' mercat cross sometime before 1320, which means this small town on the upper Tweed has been advertising its philosophy for seven centuries. Walk the High Street today, past the bookshops and the Hydro Hotel sign and the tower of a church the soldiers of Henry VIII tore down, and the motto still applies. The town keeps swimming.

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/s/peebles-wp/gcvs-peebles-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Peebles: A Confluence and a Word for Tents https://qualla.com/peebles/ Peebles sits where the Eddleston Water, which locals call the Cuddy, runs south into the River Tweed. The geography is precise: the Tweed flows west to east, the Cuddy comes down from the north and bends southwest, and between the two rivers a raised triangle of land sits open to...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/s/peebles-wp/gcvs-peebles-a-confluence-and-a-word-for-tents.mp3 0:06 2 full Peebles: The Church the Soldiers Tore Down https://qualla.com/peebles/ St Andrew's Church was founded in 1195. Today only its tower remains, standing among the gravestones, because the soldiers of Henry VIII came through the Borders in the 16th century and destroyed it along with most of the abbeys and priories in this part of Scotland. The stones g...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/s/peebles-wp/gcvs-peebles-the-church-the-soldiers-tore-down.mp3 0:06 3 full Peebles: The Mills and the Hydropaths https://qualla.com/peebles/ For the 19th and early 20th centuries, Peebles ran on wool. The Borders woollen industry employed thousands across the region, and Peebles played its part - mills along the river, weavers in the town, the rhythm of textile work setting daily life. Most of the mills had closed by ...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/s/peebles-wp/gcvs-peebles-the-mills-and-the-hydropaths.mp3 0:06 4 full Peebles: The Plaque on Tweed Green https://qualla.com/peebles/ A commemorative plaque stands on Tweed Green. It reads: "In memory of all those in Peebleshire persecuted under the 1563 Witchcraft Act including these 27 executed in 1629." Twenty-seven people, in a single year, in this small town. The names that survive include Marioun Twedy, a...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/s/peebles-wp/gcvs-peebles-the-plaque-on-tweed-green.mp3 0:06 5 full Peebles: What the Town Holds Now https://qualla.com/peebles/ Peebles today has about 9,000 residents, many of them commuters to Edinburgh 23 miles north along the A703. The railway is gone, closed in the 1960s along with most of the Borders lines, but a connection survives via Borders Buses X62. In 2014, Creative Scotland named Peebles the...

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