Editing Newport-on-Tay

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| country = Scotland
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| official_name = Newport-on-Tay
| gaelic_name = Am Port Nuadh
| scots_name = Newport-on-Tay
| population = 4,118
| population_ref = <ref>citypopulation.de. (n.d.). Retrieved August 22, 2024, from https://www.citypopulation.de/en/uk/scotland/fife/S52000488__newport_on_tay/</ref> (2022)
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| lieutenancy_scotland = [[Fife]]
| constituency_westminster = [[North East Fife (UK Parliament constituency)|North East Fife]]
| constituency_scottish_parliament = [[North East Fife (Scottish Parliament constituency)|North East Fife]]
| post_town = NEWPORT-ON-TAY
| postcode_district = DD6
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| dial_code = 01382
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'''Newport-on-Tay''' is a town in the north-east of [[Fife]] in [[Scotland]]. The [[Fife Coastal Path]] passes through Newport-on-Tay. The area itself has views of the two bridges that cross the [[River Tay]] and distant views of the [[Scottish Highlands]].

==History==
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! colspan="2"  style="background:#ccf; text-align:center;"| Historical populations
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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.

==Tayfield House==

The substantial estate of Tayfield was created, almost encompassing the whole landward side of the town, by John Berry (1725&ndash;1817) in 1788. The estate stayed in the family for two centuries, with some sections, such as Gowrie Woods, being gifted to the council for public use in 1946.<ref>Greek Secrets Revealed by Ian McHaffie ISBN 978-0-9525026-8-5</ref> The original house was totally remodelled in 1828 by the architect George Smith, in a Jacobean style, and is now a [[Listed Building]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/LB38627 | title=Tayfield House (Lb38627) }}</ref>

==Archaeology==
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An excavation carried out by [[Headland Archaeology]]<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Stronach |first1=Simon |last2=Sheridan |first2=Alison |last3=Henderson |first3=David |year=2006 |title=A Bronze Age cremation cemetery at North Straiton, Fife |url=https://www.tafac.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/V12p1-13_Stronach-et-al.pdf |url-status=live |journal=Tayside Fife Archaeological Journal |language=en |location=Fife, Scotland |publisher=Tayside and Fife Archaeological Committee |volume=12 |pages=1{{ndash}}13 |issn=2632-2420 |oclc=1084407941 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220225235049/https://www.tafac.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/V12p1-13_Stronach-et-al.pdf |archive-date=25 February 2022}}</ref> in the farm of North Straiton near Newport-on-Tay uncovered part of a [[Bronze Age Britain|Bronze Age]] [[cremation]] cemetery and a line of postholes. Five human cremations were found in a group of scattered disposal pits. Around 25 metres away was a line of postholes, one of which was also associated with cremated human bone. [[Radiocarbon]] dates from the features indicated that they had been created in the Bronze Age, from around 1700 to 2000 BC.

The line of posts was substantial and may have been associated with the cremations rather than a building or fence. It is possible that the posts may have been memorials or markers close to the pyre used to burn the dead. Part of a quern stone and some burnt animal bone suggested that the cremation ceremony also involved preparing food. A collection of pottery was found with the cremations. This included a complete accessory vessel and fragments from a larger decorated pot that covered it.

==Present==
Newport currently has a population of about four thousand, mostly living in stone houses built before World War II. The town centre comprises two main streets with a small variety of shops and three public houses. The town has one primary school, Newport Primary School. It was built in 1977 by the then [[Fife Council|Fife Regional Council]] Architectural Department, with Donald George Beaton working as the school's architect.<ref name= "BuildingsOfScotland">{{Cite book |last= Gifford|first= John|title=Buildings of Scotland: Fife |date= 27 October 1988|publisher= [[Penguin Books]]|isbn=0-14-071077-9 |editor-last=McWilliam |editor-first=Colin |location= Harmondsworth|page= 336|language= en|oclc= 475440850|editor-last2= Newman|editor-first2= John}}</ref><ref name = "DSA">{{Cite web |author= <!--Not stated-->|date= <!--Not stated-->|title= Dictionary of Scottish Architects - Newport Primary School|url= http://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/building_full.php?id=410418|url-status= live|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20220131192130/http://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/building_full.php?id=410418|archive-date= 31 January 2022|access-date= 31 January 2022|website= www.scottisharchitects.org.uk|language= en}}</ref> Older pupils attend secondary school at [[Madras College]] in [[St Andrews]], or at [[Bell Baxter High School]] in [[Cupar]], or at the nearest independent schools, the [[High School of Dundee]] and [[St Leonards School]].

Public bus routes are the 77 to [[Dundee]], 92 to [[St Andrews]], and the X54 to [[Edinburgh]] via [[Glenrothes]] (and [[Ninewells Hospital]] in the other direction)

Newport has been twinned with [[Zolotarovo]], [[Ukraine]] since 20 July 2002.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Town Twinning |url=https://www.fifedirect.org.uk/topics/index.cfm?fuseaction=service.display&objectid=909a83ad-347e-4e30-828c-07b353b68048 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170103165242/https://www.fifedirect.org.uk/topics/index.cfm?fuseaction=service.display&objectid=909a83ad-347e-4e30-828c-07b353b68048 |archive-date=3 January 2017 |access-date=26 January 2018 |website=www.fifedirect.org.uk |publisher=[[Fife Council]] |language=en}}</ref>

===Local amenities===
[[File:Newport East Station (geograph 3190285).jpg|thumb|right|300px|A view of Newport in about 1968 showing the BL Nairn, St. Fillans Church, and the East Station]]
Amenities on and around the High Street include food and drink stores, health and beauty outlets, trades and services, a variety of shops, an art gallery and a sports centre.

There are three churches:
*[[Church of Scotland]]<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-03-17 |title=Newport on Tay Church of Scotland Homepage |url=http://www.notchurch.co.uk/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200518013817/http://www.notchurch.co.uk/ |archive-date=18 May 2020 |access-date=28 March 2020 |publisher=Newport on Tay Church of Scotland |language=en}}</ref>
*[[Episcopal Church of Scotland]] (St Mary's)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Newport-on-Tay, St Mary's |url=http://www.standrews.anglican.org/index.php/churches_directory/church/newport_on_tay_st_marys/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927053800/http://www.standrews.anglican.org/index.php/churches_directory/church/newport_on_tay_st_marys/ |archive-date=27 September 2011 |access-date=10 March 2011 |website=www.standrews.anglican.org |publisher=Diocese of St Andrews, Dunkeld & Dunblane |location=Perth, Scotland |language=en}}</ref>
*[[Roman Catholic]] (St. Fillans)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Home |url=http://northfifecatholic.weebly.com/ |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181216120635/https://northfifecatholic.weebly.com/ |archive-date=16 December 2018 |access-date=28 March 2020 |website=Northfifecatholic.weebly.com |language=en}}</ref>

A second Church of Scotland church, St. Fillans, originally a [[Free Church of Scotland (1843–1900)|Free Church]], was demolished in 1981.<ref>{{Cite web |title=St Fillans Free Church, Newport-On-Tay |url=http://www.leisureandculturedundee.com/photopolis/st-fillans-free-church-newport-tay |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220224021106/http://www.leisureandculturedundee.com/photopolis/st-fillans-free-church-newport-tay |archive-date=24 February 2022 |access-date=24 February 2022 |website=www.leisureandculturedundee.com |publisher=Leisure & Culture Dundee |language=en}}</ref>

==Newport-on-Tay and the arts==
The arts have played a major role in the shaping of Newport and its neighbourhood. In 1905 the Tayport Artists' Circle was formed,<ref>The National Archives; BT58/12/Cos/1288A</ref>{{Full citation needed|date=February 2022}} including James Douglas, Anna Douglas, Alec Grieve, [[Stewart Carmichael]], [[William Bradley Lamond]], [[Charles Adamson (sculptor)|Charles Adamson]] and the so-called "Painter's painter" [[David Foggie]].<ref>{{Cite web |orig-date=27 August {{ndash}} 15 October, 2004 |title=David Foggie: The Painter's Painter |url=https://www.dundee.ac.uk/museum/exhibitions/foggie/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220224193119/https://www.dundee.ac.uk/museum/exhibitions/foggie/ |archive-date=24 February 2022 |access-date=24 February 2022 |website=www.dundee.ac.uk |publisher=[[University of Dundee]] |language=en}}</ref> Led by [[Frank Laing]], their aim was to have an influence through art on the industrial environment; this is explained in a letter from Laing to the town planner/architect [[Patrick Geddes]].<ref>University of Strathclyde archives</ref>{{Full citation needed|date=February 2022}}

Many teachers of fine art in the [[University of Dundee]]'s [[Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design]] have migrated towards Newport-on-Tay and its north-west facing position for the incredible quality of light.{{citation needed|date=November 2018}} Such heavy-weights in the Scottish art scene as [[John Byrne (playwright)|John Byrne]], [[Will Maclean]] and Marian Leven<ref>{{Cite web |last=Annabel |date=2015 |title=Marian Leven |url=https://compassgallery.co.uk/2015/marian-leven/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220224195900/https://compassgallery.co.uk/2015/marian-leven/ |archive-date=24 February 2022 |access-date=24 February 2022 |publisher=Compass Gallery |location=Glasgow, Scotland |language=en}}</ref> are associated with the area. A local community arts centre, The Forgan Arts,<ref>{{Cite web |date=18 March 2017 |title=Home |url=http://www.forganartscentre.co.uk/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170531070025/http://www.forganartscentre.co.uk/ |archive-date=31 May 2017 |access-date=30 May 2017 |publisher=Forgan Arts Centre |location=Fife, Scotland |language=en}}</ref> provides courses in arts and crafts. The Tatha art gallery opened in Newport-on-Tay in 2014.<ref>{{Cite web |date=25 April 2014 |title=TATHA Gallery opens Newport |url=https://creativedundee.com/2014/04/tatha_gallery/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220224201628/https://creativedundee.com/2014/04/tatha_gallery/ |archive-date=24 February 2022 |access-date=24 February 2022 |website=creativedundee.com |publisher=Creative Dundee |location=Dundee, Scotland |language=en}}</ref><ref>London Times 8 May 2014 page 21</ref>{{Full citation needed|date=February 2022}}

==Notable people==
*[[John Leng (politician)|Sir John Leng]] (1828-1906), politician and publisher.<ref>{{cite DNB12 |wstitle= Leng, John |volume= 2 |last= Millar |first= Alexander Hastie |author-link=|pages=454-456|short=1}}</ref>
*[[John Sturrock (politician)|John Leng Sturrock]] (1878-1943), politician
*[[Valentine Fleming]] (1882-1917), [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] politician
*[[George Ranken Tudhope]]  (1893-1955) pathologist<ref>{{Cite journal |last = Tulloch|first = W. J.|title = George Ranken Tudhope. 7th July 1893-12th December 1955|journal= The Journal of Pathology and Bacteriology|volume= 73|pages=298–299|year= 1957| issue=1 |doi= 10.1002/path.1700730138|doi-access= free}}</ref>
*[[Charles Lambe|Sir Charles Lambe]] (1900-1960), First Sea Lord, Admiral of the Fleet; born in Dorset, residence Newport, died Newport 1960<ref>{{Cite book |last=Heathcote |first=Tony |title=British admirals of the fleet 1734-1995 : a biographical dictionary |date=2002 |publisher=Leo Cooper |isbn=0-85052-835-6 |location=Barnsley, England |oclc=50175925}}</ref>{{Page needed|date=February 2022}}
* [[Margaret Dare|Marie Dare]] (1902-1976), composer and cellist was born here
*[[Scott Sutherland]] (1910-1984),  sculptor
*[[Dave Duncan (writer)|Dave Duncan]] (1933-2018), writer was born here

== Notes ==
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==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.notchurch.co.uk Newport-on-Tay Church of Scotland]
* [http://www.newport-on-tay.com Newport-on-Tay Smart Community]
* [http://www.fifedirect.org.uk/Newport Newport-on-Tay on Fife Direct]{{Dead link|date=April 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
* [http://www.scottish-places.info/towns/townfirst123.html Gazetteer for Scotland: Newport-on-Tay]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20050507120810/http://www.nevermore.org.uk/travel/country/scotland/newport/ Nevermore TravelBlog: Newport]
* [http://www.visitnewportontay.co.uk/ Visit Newport-on-Tay, Newport-on-Tay Traders Association]
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01hw4pm BBC Stark Talk with Will Maclean and Marian Leven]
* [https://www.newportontayhistory.org.uk/ Newport-on-Tay History Group Website and Archive]

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