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Kelso

town in the Scottish Borders, Scotland, UK
Place town Q654945

Facts

13 properties

Identity

Instance of
town, small burgh
Official website
www.kelsoscottishborders.co.uk[11]

Location

Country
United Kingdom[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 55.599°, -2.434°
Located in or next to body of water
River Teviot, River Tweed[4][5]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Scottish Borders, Kelso, Roxburghshire, Roxburgh[2]

Population and size

Population
+6910[12]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 6,910 GeoNames 6,870 edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗

Codes

Local dialing code
01573[9]
Postal code
TD5[8]
More facts +4
Described by source
The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, New International Encyclopedia[13][14][15]
Historic county
Roxburghshire[16]
OS grid reference
NT727339[10]
Twinned administrative body
Kelso, Orchies[6][7]
🏷️ Also known as
en Kelso en Kelso, Roxburghshire en Kelso, Scottish Borders ar كيلسو fa کلسو، اسکاتیش بوردرز he קלסו ja ケルソー ko 켈소 ru Келсо zh 凯尔索 zh-hans 克艾素
🔖 Identifiers · 30
VIAF cluster ID
140715273
Library of Congress authority ID
n80040175
GND ID
4277930-3
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Kelsocobbypanorama.jpg ↗
BBC News topic ID
cjkm5xxnd56t
BBC Things ID
f13fea18-d13f-4562-b957-c13594cec4a9
Curlie ID
Regional/Europe/United_Kingdom/Scotland/Borders/Kelso/
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
place/Kelso-Scotland
FactGrid item ID
Zivile Notfallreserve
Freebase ID
/m/058ql_
GNS Unique Feature ID
-2599777
GSS code (2011)
S20000446, S19000484
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Gazetteer for Scotland place ID
towns/townfirst235
GeoNames ID
2645849
NL CR AUT ID
ge1170751
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007564221505171
Quora topic ID
Kelso-Scottish-Borders
RKD thesaurus ID
9768
SNARC ID
Björn Thurau
TOID
4000000074554206
Topic's main category
Category:Kelso, Scottish Borders
UN/LOCODE
GBKLO
Vision of Britain place ID
17073
Vision of Britain unit ID
10360183
WOEID
24735
Wellcome Collection concept ID
bjqr8g8z
Who's on First ID
101873479
Wikishire article ID
Kelso
WorldCat Entities ID
E39PBJrcgXTpF8fTKBqQHvGbVC
Yale LUX ID
place/02a88bac-fbba-4d75-8860-e7b0db7ef178

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🔗 Connections
People born here 12
Henry James Sumner Maine, Henry Macintosh, Oscar Onley, Jennie Kidd Trout, William Fairbairn, James Innes-Ker, 7th Duke of Roxburghe, James R. Ballantyne, Henry Oliver +4 more
People who died here 5
Frederick Peake, James Innes-Ker, 7th Duke of Roxburghe, William Edwardes, 4th Baron Kensington, Clive Ponting, James Melville Babington
Described by source 3
Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, New International Encyclopedia, The Nuttall Encyclopædia
Located in or next to body of water 2
River Tweed, River Teviot
Located in the administrative territorial entity 2
Scottish Borders, Roxburghshire
Twinned administrative body 2
Orchies, Kelso
← Twinned administrative body 2
Orchies, Kelso
Country 1
United Kingdom
Historic county 1
Roxburghshire
Instance of 1
town
Located in this place 1
Kelso Abbey
Located in time zone 1
UTC±00:00
SNARC ID 1
Björn Thurau
← Start point 1
2024 Tour of Britain
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Summary

Kelso is a town[1].

Related Entities

Orchies River Tweed United Kingdom

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [4] ↑ . maps.nls.uk. maps.nls.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [5] ↑ . maps.nls.uk. maps.nls.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 10w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in the administrative territorial entity → Scottish Borders, Kelso, Roxburghshire +1
    Official website → http://www.kelsoscottishborders.co.uk/
    Coordinate location → {'lat': 55.5985, 'lon': -2.4336}
    Described by source → The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, New International Encyclopedia
    + 15 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/48912|batch #48912]]: redundant value, already present at higher administrative level"
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