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    The Hawick Paper

    What’s in a name? Waverley Terrace/Cottages

    Saturday, October 22nd, 2016

    Contrary to popular belief, Waverley Terrace is not named after the nearby railway line, but instead directly after Sir Walter Scott’s novel. This street was built as the first phase of housing funded by the Hawick Working Men’s Building & Investment Co. Ltd. in 1866, and was originally called Queensberry Place. This name came from one of the Duke of Buccleuch’s unused titles. The Town Council discontinued the name in 1882, and adopted the more popular Waverley moniker. Interestingly, nearby Waverley Cottages (built in 1876) were also named after the novel – and in what surely must rank as a massive coincidence – were erected by joiner Walter Scott, of Parkhead Ormiston!

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