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The image top is of the vast car park on the
west side of the River Tweed with Kids Play,
Riverside Walks and great views over the
Town.
The Market Cross is on the south side of the
High Street with the Old Parish Church at the
north end. The 500 year old Market Cross has
been moved about over the years and had
sections renewed. It is now close to where it
was originally built.
The Old Parish
Church was completed in 1887 with some
features retained from an earlier Church on
this site.
The Tontine Hotel
is on the High Street with the Memorial
Fountain in front. The Hotel was built in 1808
by French Prisoners of War.
The Memorial Fountain was built in 1898 in
memory of John Veitch -
Philosopher, Poet and Professor of Logic at St
Andrews University.
The Tweeddale
Museum, Art Gallery, and Library is also on
the High Street, with the Peebles War Memorial
behind the Museum. The Museum covers the
History of the Town through the Wool Industry
and Wars. The Wool Mills began closing in the
1960s, with the last one closing in 2015.
The Museum is in the Chambers Institution, a
complex of buildings gifted to the people of
Peebles in 1859 by William
Chambers, who founded the publishing firm
W. & R. Chambers Publishers with his brother
Robert.
The Old Cross Kirk
is under half of a mile walk north of the High
Street with the earliest parts built in the
1200s. The Kirk is known as the place where a
Cross and Relics of St Nicholas of Myrna were
discovered in 1261. St Nicholas of
Myrna lived in the area of modern day
Turkey in the 300s, it is unknown how his
Relics became hidden at Peebles. Kirk Map
St Andrews
Tower is by Hay Lodge Park next to the main
road half of a mile northwest of the Town
centre. The Tower is what is left of St
Andrew's Parish Church from 1195. This site is
thought to be where earlier Churches from as
far back as the 600s were situated. There are
many old Grave Stones with strange carvings
around the Tower. Tower Map
Neidpath Castle is under 1 mile from St
Andrews Tower by walking through Hay Lodge Park
and alongside the River. You can also follow a
Riverside Path out from the Town centre.
Neidpath Castle
was built in the late 1300s for the Hay family.
The Castle is now owned by the Earl of
Wemyss.
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