Eddleston is in the north of Peeblesshire with Midlothian to north and east. Innerleithen abuts at the south east corner, Peebles and Lyne are on the south and Newlands is to the west. The parish is in a broad valley through which Eddleston Water runs and which provided the route for both the road and the railway from Edinburgh to Peebles. There has been a church here since the 12th century but the current building dates from the 18th century. The parish is now linked with the Old Parish Church in Peebles. During World War II Polish soldiers were billeted in the area and they constructed a relief map of Scotland in a pond in the grounds of Black Barony Castle, now a hotel and the Scottish Ambulance Services training centre.
Old Parish Records cover the periods:
Births: 1640-1699,1713-1854 (Mothers' names are not recorded until 1780)
Marriages: 1665-1696, 1714-1854
Deaths: 1675-1695, 1714-1854 (Burial records were regularly kept)
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Volumes available for consultation within our Archive
Pre 1855 Monumental Inscriptions of Peeblesshire by S.A. Scott published by Scottish Genealogical Society 1971.
Rutherford's Southern Counties Register and Directory 1867.
County Directory of Scotland 1912 - Borders Towns and Villages.
C.D. Extracts from the Records of the Burgh of Peebles 1652 to 1716.
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Map of Broughton,glenholm,kilbucho from Quarter-inch to the mile, Scotland, 1921-1923 or One-inch to the mile, Popular edition, Scotland, 1920-1930 by kind permission of the National Library of Scotland. Use the control at the top left of the map to zoom in or out and drag the map left, right, up, or down as you wish.
Other Sources
The Buildings of Scotland - Borders, Cruft, Dunbar & Fawcett, Yale University Press, London 2006
The Statistical Accounts of Scotland 1791-99, volume 17, page 182 :
Eddlestone, County of Peebles.
The Statistical Accounts of Scotland 1834-45 vol.3 p.146 :
Eddlestone, County of Peebles
