Galashiels, a burgh of Scotland, partly in Selkirkshire and partly in Roxburghshire, on both sides of the Gala, 27 m. S. E. of Edinburgh; pop. in 1871, 6,433 (in 1801, 1,214, and in 1831, 2,209). The place is of considerable antiquity, but the wool manufactures, to which it owes its recent progress, have only since the beginning of the present century been carried on to any great extent. The town is well built, has six principal streets, and is lighted with gas.