Innerleithen, a police-burgh (1869) of Peeblesshire, near the Tweed's left bank, 6 miles ESE. of Peebles, and 12 W. of Galashiels. Its first woollen-factory was established in 1790, about which time its saline spring (Scott's 'St Ronan's Well') came into celebrity; but the great extension of its woollen industry dates from fifty years later. Pop. (1841) 463; (1891) 2512.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 6: Humber to Malta, p. 146
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