Editing Newport-on-Tay (section)

==History==
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! colspan="2"  style="background:#ccf; text-align:center;"| Historical populations
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! style="text-align:center;"| Census<br />year !! style="text-align:right;"| Population
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| style="text-align:center;"| 1755 || style="text-align:right;"| 751
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| style="text-align:center;"| 1801 || style="text-align:right;"| 916
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| style="text-align:center;"| 1851 || style="text-align:right;"| 1125
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| style="text-align:center;"| 1901 || style="text-align:right;"| 4720
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| style="text-align:center;"| 1951 || style="text-align:right;"| 3727
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| style="text-align:center;"| 2005 || style="text-align:right;"| 7922
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[[File:Newport on Tay Church of Scotland.JPG|thumb|left|Newport on Tay Church of Scotland]]

The town was established near the endpoint of one part of a [[ferry]] route that itself was started in the 12th century.

In 1715 a new pier and inn were built, the work being funded by the Guilds of Dundee which resulted in the settlement being called "New Dundee". [[Thomas Telford]] built a new harbour in the 1820s, and the town expanded and grew into a [[Commuting|commuter]] suburb of Dundee as the prosperous [[jute]] manufacturers, [[industrialist]]s and the [[middle class|middle]] and [[skilled worker|upper working class]] of Dundee established fashionable residences in Newport.
[[File:High Street of Newport-on-Tay, Scotland.jpg|thumb|High Street at sunset]]
The local war memorial dates from 1920 and was designed by Sir [[Robert Lorimer]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Dictionary of Scottish Architects Biography Report: (Sir) Robert Stodart Lorimer |url=http://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/architect_full.php?id=200052 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220207190550/http://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/architect_full.php?id=200052 |archive-date=7 February 2022 |access-date=22 February 2022 |website=www.scottisharchitects.org.uk |publisher=[[Historic Environment Scotland]] |location=Edinburgh, Scotland |language=en}}</ref>

Newport-on-Tay formerly had two railway stations – the [[Newport-on-Tay East railway station|East]] and West stations on what was the [[Newport Railway, Scotland|Newport Railway]]. Both stations (and the Tayport-Dundee branch line) closed in 1969, having lost much of their business following the opening of the Tay Road Bridge in 1966.  In fact, trains had ceased to run beyond Newport-on-Tay East station to Tayport on 22 May 1966 so that the railway line could be breached to build the bridge's southern approach road. The Dundee – Newport ferry also closed promptly later in 1966 on the opening of the [[Tay Road Bridge]].  However, the ferry terminal buildings and slipways still survive at the foot of Boat Hill as a boat repair yard.