Newstead (Scottish Borders)
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| Coordinates | 55 ° 36 ′ N , 2 ° 42 ′ W | ||
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| Residents | 176 (1971 census) | ||
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| Post town | MELROSE | ||
| ZIP code section | TD6 | ||
| prefix | 01896 | ||
| Part of the country | Scotland | ||
| Council area | Scottish Borders | ||
| British Parliament | Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk | ||
| Scottish Parliament | Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire | ||
Newstead is a town in the Scottish Council Area Scottish Borders and the traditional county of Roxburghshire . It is located about eight kilometers southeast of Galashiels and 16 kilometers northwest of Jedburgh on the right bank of the Tweed .
history
The Roman Dere Street was the most important north-south Roman road in Great Britain . This crossed the Tweed directly east of today's Newstead, for example at the location of the Leaderfoot Viaduct . The Roman military camp Trimontium was located near the crossing , which is why numerous finds from Roman times are recorded in Newstead and the surrounding area. In the west of Melrose was the important 12th century Cistercian Abbey of Melrose Abbey , which dates back to a monastery founded in the 6th century.
In 1871, 315 residents were counted in Newstead. In the course of the 1961 census surveys, a decrease in the number of inhabitants to 165 was found, whereas ten years later 171 people were counted.
traffic
The village is located on the A6091 , which connects the A68 in the east via Melrose and Tweedbank with the A7 at Galashiels. The North British Railway connected Newstead to the rail network with its own station in the mid-19th century. This was served by trains on the Waverley Line until it was closed in the 1960s . Erected in the 1860s, Leader Hall Viaduct easternmost also resulted from Reston coming Berwickshire Railway over the Tweed to the south to St Boswells .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Information in the Gazetteer for Scotland
- ↑ a b Entry in the Gazetteer for Scotland
- ↑ Lawrence Keppie : A Roman Frontier Post and Its People. Newstead 1911-2011 . National Museums Scotland Enterprises, Edinburgh 2012.
- ^ Newstead , in FH Groome: Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Survey of Scottish Topography, Statistical, Biographical and Historical , Grange Publishing, Edinburgh, 1882-1885.
