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"Stow (Old Eng. 'place'), a village of SE Edinburghshire, and a parish partly also of Selkirkshire. On all sides sheltered by hills, the village lies, 580 feet above sea-level, near the left bank of Gala Water, and ¼ mile E of Stow station on the Waverley route of the North British railway, across the stream, this being 6 ¾ miles NNW of Galashiels and 26 ¾ (by road 24) SSE of Edinburgh. A pretty little place, of high antiquity, it has a post office, with money order, savings bank, and telegraph departments, a hotel, gassworks, three woollen mills, an engineering work, a bowling club, and hiring fairs on the last Monday of February and the second Tuesday of March.
The parish, containing Fountainhall, Bowland and Clovenfords stations, is bounded N by Fala and Soutra, NE by Channelkirk, E by Channelkirk, Lauder and Melrose, SE by Galashiels, S by Selkirk and Yarrow, SW and W by Innerleithen, and NW by Heriot, so that, while itself lying in two counties, it is in contact with three others - Haddington, Roxburgh and Peebles shires."
(Extract from Groomes Ordnance Gazetteer
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| Stow Cemetery, Stow, Cemetery |
| Stow Cemetery, Stow, Cemetery |
| Caddonfoot, Church of Scotland |
| Old Stow Kirk, Stow, Church of Scotland |
| St Mary of Wedale, Stow, Church of Scotland |
| Stow Free Church |
| United Presbyterian Church, Stow, United Presbyterian |
The parish church has records for births dating from 1626, for marriages from 1641 and for deaths from 1722. These are held in the General Register Office for Scotland in Edinburgh and copies on microfilm may be consulted in the Midlothian Studies Centre in Loanhead and also in LDS Family History Centres around the world.
The transcription of the section for Stow from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.
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