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The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Galashiels
Visit Galashiels places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Galashiels places to visit. A unique way to experience Galashiels’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Galashiels as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
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Galashiels is a town in the Scottish Borders with a population of around 12,600. Its name is often colloquially shortened to “Gala” The town is a major commercial centre for the Borders region. It is the location of Heriot-Watt University’s Textiles and Design School. When you visit Galashiels, Walkfo brings Galashiels places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Galashiels Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Galashiels
Visit Galashiels – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 13 audio plaques & Galashiels places for you to explore in the Galashiels area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Galashiels places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Galashiels history
To the west of the town there is an ancient earthwork known as the Picts’ Work Ditch or Catrail. The Romans destroyed the broch in AD 140, soon after it was completed. The town’s coat of arms shows two foxes reaching up to eat plums from a tree.
Why visit Galashiels with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Galashiels places with Walkfo Galashiels to hear history at Galashiels’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Galashiels has 13 places to visit in our interactive Galashiels map, with amazing history, culture & travel facts you can explore the same way you would at a museum or art gallery with information audio headset. With Walkfo, you can travel by foot, bike or bus throughout Galashiels, being in the moment, without digital distraction or limits to a specific walking route. Our historic audio walks, National Trust interactive audio experiences, digital tour guides for English Heritage locations are available at Galashiels places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Galashiels & the surrounding areas.
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Walkfo: Visit Galashiels Places Map
13 tourist, history, culture & geography spots
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Best Galashiels places to visit
Galashiels has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Galashiels’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Galashiels’s information audio spots:
Galashiels television relay station
Galashiels television relay station is a relay transmitter of Selkirk, situated to the north of the town itself, as well as Melrose and Darnick. It is owned and operated by Arqiva.
Gala Water
The Gala Water is a tributary of the River Tweed. It is sometimes known as the “Gala”, which nickname is also shared with Galashiels, which it flows through.
Buckholm
Buckholm is a farm near to the A7 in the Scottish Borders, Galashiels area of Scotland. Buckholm Tower was built in 1582 by the Pringle family and is at the foot of Buckholm Hill.
Visit Galashiels plaques
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here Galashiels has 1 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Galashiels plaques audio map when visiting. Plaques like National Heritage’s “Blue Plaques” provide visual geo-markers to highlight points-of-interest at the places where they happened – and Walkfo’s AI has researched additional, deeper content when you visit Galashiels using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Galashiels plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.
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