Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Blainslee

Blainslee, a village in the NE extremity of Melrose parish, Roxburghshire, on the right bank of the river Leader, 3 miles SSE of Lander. A public school at it, with accommodation for 110 children, had (1879) an average attendance of 60, and a grant of £56,9s.


(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)

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Feature Description: "a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Melrose ScoP       Roxburghshire ScoCnty

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