Peebleshire

Peeblesshire
Historic county
Country	Scotland
County town	Peebles
Area
• Total	548 sq mi (1,419 km2)
	Ranked 16th of 34
Chapman code	PEE

Peeblesshire (Siorrachd nam Pùballan in Gaelic), the County of Peebles or Tweeddale is a historic county of Scotland. Its county town is Peebles, and it borders Midlothian to the north, Selkirkshire to the east, Dumfriesshire to the south, and Lanarkshire to the west.

After the local government reorganisation of 1975 the county lost its administrative status, and the area was governed as the district of Tweeddale.

The coat of arms of the county, which was matriculated by the Lord Lyon in 1931, ia as follows: Quarterly, 1st sable five fraises (strawberry leaves) argent; 2nd azure, a horse's head couped argent; 3rd vert, a fleece or; 4th or, fretty gules, on a chief embattled of the last, two thunderbolts of the first. The arms are supported by two salmon proper, and the crest is a Border cavalryman. The motto is ONWARD TWEEDDALE. The first quarter is the arms of Fraser of Oliver Castle, a prominent local laird; the second, that of Horsburgh, another prominent local laird; the third, a reference to the area's wool industry; and the fourth, that of M. G. (later Sir Michael) Thorburn of Glenormiston, who was sheriff of Peebles at the time of the arms' matriculation.

(Scottish Borders Scheme for the Establishment of Community Councils)

The most common surnames in Peeblesshire at the time of the United Kingdom Census of 1881 by order of incidence were:

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