What does Selkirkshire mean?

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Proper noun
  1. a historic county of Scotland, with its county town in Selkirk. It was abolished in 1975, becoming part of Ettrick and Lauderdale district in the Scottish Borders region.
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For events which happened in his own neighbourhood the Sheriff of selkirkshire is, I suspect, as good a guide as can be found.
This old woman is still alive, and at present resides at Craig of Douglas, in selkirkshire.
Ettrick and Yarrow between them comprise most of selkirkshire.
And the man has now been named as David Thomas Grattan, 60, of Galashiels, in Selkirkshire.
In no part of Scotland, indeed, has the belief in Fairies maintained its ground with more pertinacity than in selkirkshire.
It is certain we have lost the beaver, whose bones have been more than once found in our selkirkshire bogs and marlmosses.

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