Newtongrange
Newtongrange is a former mining village in Midlothian, Scotland. Known in local dialect as Nitten, or Nitten by the Bing, it became Scotland's largest mining village in the 1890s, with the sinking of the Lady Victoria Colliery and a shaft over 1600 feet deep.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Newtongrange railway station and Newbattle Abbey.
Newtongrange railway station
Railway station
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Newtongrange is a railway station on the Borders Railway, which runs between Edinburgh Waverley and Tweedbank. The station, situated 11 miles 77 chains south-east of Edinburgh Waverley, serves the town of Newtongrange in Midlothian, Scotland.
Newbattle Abbey
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Newbattle Abbey was a Cistercian monastery near the village of Newbattle in Midlothian, Scotland, which subsequently became a stately home and then an educational institution.
Cockpen and Carrington Parish Church
Church
Cockpen and Carrington Parish Church is located to the south of the town of Bonnyrigg in Midlothian, Scotland. It is a congregation of the Church of Scotland.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Newbattle and Easthouses.
Newbattle
Suburb
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Newbattle is a village and civil parish in Midlothian, Scotland. The village lies south of Dalkeith, about seven miles from Edinburgh. It is notable for containing Newbattle Abbey, a stately home built on the site of a 12th-century Cistercian monastery.
Easthouses
Village
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Easthouses is a settlement in Midlothian, Scotland, lying to the east of Newtongrange and south of Dalkeith. It forms the northern extension of the settlement of Mayfield, with which it is closely associated; the two communities have a combined population of around 7,900.
Mayfield
Town
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Mayfield is a community in Midlothian, Scotland, located just south of Dalkeith near Edinburgh between the A68 and the A7 south. It had an estimated population of 13,690 in 2020.
Newtongrange
- Type: Town with 5,340 residents
- Description: village in Midlothian, Scotland, UK
- Categories: village and locality
- Location: Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.8664° or 55° 51′ 59″ northLongitude
-3.06662° or 3° 3′ 60″ westPopulation
5,340Elevation
312 feet (95 metres)Open location code
9C7RVW8M+H9OpenStreetMap ID
node 354939766OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
2641551Wikidata ID
Q7020516
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Polish—“Newtongrange” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Newtongrange”
- Chinese: “牛頓格朗日村”
- Dutch: “Newtongrange”
- French: “Newtongrange”
- German: “Newtongrange”
- Japanese: “ニュートングレインジ”
- Japanese: “ニュートングレンジ”
- Polish: “Newtongrange”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Newbattle Congregational Church and Newtongrange Leisure Centre.
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