Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Newton

Newton, a collier village in Pencaitland parish, Haddingtonshire, 3 miles SE of Tranent. It has a reading-room (1880) and a proprietary school.


(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a collier village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Pencaitland Parish       East Lothian County

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