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Revision as of 16:16, 23 February 2025
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| Dumfriesshire | |
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| Location | |
| Grid reference: | NY181651 |
| Location: | 54°58’26"N, 3°16’52"W |
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| Post town: | Annan |
| Postcode: | DG12 |
| Dialling code: | 01461 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Dumfries and Galloway |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale |
Newbie is a hamlet in Dumfriesshire, on the shire of the Solway Firth by the mouth of the River Annan, near Annan town. It is home to a pharmaceutics plant belonging to Phoenix Chemicals of Liverpool.[1]
The Annandale Way Great Trail has a trailhead at Newbie Barns, a small collection of dwellings in Newbie.
History
In November 1597, King James VI of Scotland came to the region to address border issues. Henry Leigh or Lee, an English depute warden and servant of Lord Scrope came to Newbie to meet the King, who was holding his council accompanied by the Duke of Lennox, the Earl of Glencairn, Walter Stewart of Blantyre, Lord Ochiltree, Lord Sempill, Lord Herries, the Lairds of Lochinvar, Johnson, Closeburn, Murray of Cockpool, and others. John Johnston, laird of Newbie was a depute border warden.[2]
Newbie Castle was a tower house or castle here, owned by the Johnston family and the Earls of Hartfell. It has long since been demolished but some masonry quoins from the tower decorated with characteristic Scottish renaissance buckle carvings were used in more recent farm buildings.[3]
References
- ↑ "Pharmaceutical plant buyer found". 8 September 2009. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/south_of_scotland/8244438.stm.
- ↑ Joseph Bain, Calendar of Border Papers, vol. 2 (Edinburgh, 1896), p. 464 no. 844.
- ↑ Aonghus MacKechnie, 'Evidence of a Post-1603 Court Architecture in Scotland?', Architectural History, 31 (1988), pages 107-118 doi:10.2307/1568537