COLDSTREAM  , a

police burgh of Berwickshire, Scotland . Pop . (1901) 1482 . It is situated on the north bank of the Tweed, here spanned by John Smeaton's fine bridge of five arches, erected in, 1763–1766, 131 M. south-west of Berwick by the North Eastern railway . The chief public buildings are the town hall, library, mechanics' institute, and cottage hospital . Some brewing is carried on . Owing to its position on the Border and also as the first ford of any consequence above Berwick, the town played a prominent part in Scottish history during many centuries . Here Edward U crossed the stream in 1296 with his to the financial disappointment of many, conferred a great benefit upon the metropolis by originating the scheme for the erection of the Royal Albert Hall . He was active in founding the national training schools for cookery and music, the latter the germ of the Royal College of Music . He edited the works of his benefactor Peacock; and was in his younger days largely connected with the press, and the author of many useful topographical handbooks published under the pseudonym of " Felix Summerly." He died on the 18th of April 1882 .