Tweed bench
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| Coordinates | 55 ° 36 ′ N , 2 ° 46 ′ W | ||
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| Residents | 1716 (2001 census) | ||
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| Post town | GALASHIELS | ||
| ZIP code section | TD1 | ||
| prefix | 01896 | ||
| Part of the country | Scotland | ||
| Council area | Scottish Borders | ||
| British Parliament | Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk | ||
| Scottish Parliament | Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire | ||
Tweed Bank is a village in the Scottish Council Area Scottish Borders and the traditional county of Roxburghshire . It lies between the small towns of Galashiels and Melrose on the right bank of the eponymous river Tweed .
history
The village was established as a planned settlement in the 1970s . Since then, Tweedbank has developed into a regionally important business location in cooperation with the surrounding communities. As part of the 2001 census survey, 1716 inhabitants were counted.
traffic
The locality is well connected in terms of infrastructure. It is located on the A6091 , which connects the A68 in the east via Reston and Melrose with the A7 at Galashiels. On its way between Galashiels and Melrose, the Waverley Line ( Edinburgh - Carlisle ) led over the area of today's Tweedbank. After the line was closed and dismantled in the 1960s, the partial reconstruction of the line as the Borders Railway began in 2012 . The newly built Tweedbank station has been the new terminus of the line starting in Edinburgh since September 2015. The use of the space required for the station building and track systems was reserved for this purpose in the relevant development plan. As before, the route crosses the Waverley Line on the Redbridge Viaduct the Tweed.
Entering Tweedbank on the A6091
Redbridge Viaduct between Tweedbank and Galashiels
Cycle route on the former Waverley Line
education
With the Tweedbank Primary School , a primary school was opened in Tweedbank in October 1976. The opening ceremony was celebrated by the Liberal Democratic politician David Steel , who was then a member of the House of Commons for the surrounding constituency of Roxburgh, Selkirk and Peebles . In 2011 the facility was expanded and modernized. It now offers space for 240 primary school students.
Edinburgh-based Heriot-Watt University took over a former textile school in neighboring Galashiels. Since the modernization of the buildings, the university's Scottish Borders campus has been established there, which is connected to the main campus in Edinburgh by a shuttle bus .
climate
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Average monthly temperatures and rainfall for Tweedbank
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Information from the Scottish Borders Regional Government
- ^ Entry in the Gazetteer for Scotland
- ↑ Information about the Borders Railway ( Memento of the original from December 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Information about the Tweedbank Primary School ( memento of the original from January 1, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Information from Heriot Watt University
