Walkerburn
Walkerburn is a tiny town in the Scottish Borders location of Scotland, on the A72 concerning 8 miles (13 km) from Peebles and also 10 miles (16 km) from Galashiels. It was founded in 1854 to house the employees for the Tweed mills owned by the Ballantyne family. Walkerburn currently has a population of around 660 (2019). The village also abnormally houses a small number of science-based sectors as well as many effective small enterprises. It is the residence of the Ballantyne Memorial Institute. With assistance from the European Union, Scottish Enterprise and Scottish Borders Council, villagers created the WAVE Group uniting all the village clubs, societies as well as people to consider future regrowth. Burning Issues was founded as a month-to-month town newsletter and also the Walkerburn and also Innerleithen Partnership was created to take advantage of European regeneration financing. The Community Council was reinvigorated as well as a brand-new Community Development Trust took shape. The Pathway Group re-built Alexandra Park with new devices in the swing park, a wildlife bush, tree planting and walkways. The General Public Hall was refurbished and prolonged just in time to give a residence for a town Healthy Living effort which provides exercise and also dance classes and also healthy and balanced cooking classes for every ages. The Development Trust began to check out the expediency of further expanding the walking, riding as well as cycling routes around the town, creating Walkerburn as a new prime focus for tourism in the Tweed Valley. Over 80 families in the village subscribed to a house composting scheme, town clean-ups and also community occasions were once more well sustained, house prices started to increase and brand-new houses were built on gap sites.