Peeblesshire

British  

/ ˈpiːbəlzˌʃɪə, -ʃə /

noun

1. Also called: Tweeddale.  (until 1975) a county of SE Scotland, now part of Scottish Borders

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Example Sentences

Poetically, the Tweed is said to take its rise in the tiny Tweed's Well among the Southern Highlands, 1250 feet above sea level, and close to where the marches of Peeblesshire, Lanarkshire, and Dumfriesshire meet.

From In the Border Country by W. S.

Affleck was born in the village of Drummelzier, in Peeblesshire, on the 8th September 1776.

From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century by Rogers, Charles

Similarly, two divisions, known as the Upper and Lower Hartfell series, are recognized in the southern and central area, in Peeblesshire, Ayrshire and Dumfriesshire.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" by Various

My home, Glen, is on the border of Peeblesshire and Selkirkshire, sixteen miles from Abbotsford and thirty from Edinburgh.

From Margot Asquith, an Autobiography - Two Volumes in One by Asquith, Margot

My father had turned out the sitting Tory, Sir Graham Montgomery, of Stobo, and was member for the two counties Peeblesshire and Selkirkshire.

From Margot Asquith, an Autobiography - Two Volumes in One by Asquith, Margot