Eastgate

The word gate in Scots does not mean a structure that opens to allow people to enter or exit, or closes to keep them in or out. It comes from the word gait which means a way - a roadway or pathway - so the Eastgate or gait was the road to the east. Round the corner is the Northgate, similarly the road to the north. There was no need for fancy street names in centuries past. Eastgate is a continuation of the High Street or Highgait or high road, the main street of the town.

The centre of Peebles is very much a residential area as well as a commercial one, so most of the upper storeys of the High Street, Eastgate and Northgate have been converted into flats, where they would once have been the homes of the burgesses of the town.