Newbigging, Angus

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Newbigging
Location within Angus
OS grid reference NO498361
Council area
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Country Scotland
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town DUNDEE
Postcode district DD5
Dialling code 01382
Police Scotland
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56°30′50″N2°49′01″W / 56.514°N 2.817°W / 56.514; -2.817
Looking north-east from Drumsturdy to Newbigging Newbigging.jpg
Looking north-east from Drumsturdy to Newbigging

Newbigging is a village in Angus, Scotland, two miles (three kilometres) northeast of Dundee. [1] The name "Newbigging" originally referred to a "new bigging" or "new cottar town" (hamlet). The village is roughly two miles (three kilometres) north of Monifieth.

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Some of the earliest history of the local area is represented approximately four kilometres northwest at the village of Eassie, where the Eassie Stone is displayed in a ruined church; this carved Pictish stone is dated prior to the Early Middle Ages. [2]

Landmarks

The oldest buildings in the village (exceeding 200 years), are the village church and the old church manse. The church is almost in the centre of the village, on the main road "Pitairlie Road". The church had been bought by artist Nail Hanna and then sold onto a private buyer who has converted it into a house. The old manse, which was superseded by the new manse behind the church (neither of which are used as the church manse any more), was given the dwelling name of "Davidsons Cottage". While this name is in some databases as the name of the oldest house in Newbigging, its current monicker is "Rhodd Duw", which is Welsh for God's gift due to the circumstances of its acquisition.

Newbigging shop, which won best village shop in Scotland in 1997, was also sold to a private buyer and converted into a house. 2005 saw the erection of 20 houses on farmland at Cunmont Cottages, Newbigging. The site, which extends to 2+3⁄4 acres (1.1 hectares), lies on the northwest sector of Newbigging between Pitairlie Road and the private road to Cunmont.

The fields around Newbigging are used mostly for the growing of arable crops such as wheat and oil seed rape.

Bus services

Moffat & Williamson, a bus operator headquartered in Fife, provides convenient two-hourly bus services connecting Dundee and several other towns, including Monifieth & Broughty Ferry, through their Services 78 and 79. [3] Operating on Mondays, Wednesdays & Fridays only is Stagecoach Strathtay's Service 181, which connects Monifieth and several other towns, including Newbigging and Monikie, with Forfar. The bus route is convenient for shoppers as, along with the town centre, it stops at Asda, Tesco, Lidl & Aldi. It also stops at Monifieth Tesco. [4]

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References

  1. ↑ "Dundee and Montrose, Forfar and Arbroath", Ordnance Survey Landranger Map (B2 ed.), 2007, ISBN   0-319-22980-7
  2. ↑ C.Michael Hogan, Eassie Stone, The Megalithic Portal, ed. Andy Burnham, 7 October 2007
  3. ↑ "Services 78A -79C Bus Timetable Dundee - Monikie - Dundee Circulars" (PDF). angus.gov.uk.
  4. ↑ "Forfar Guide 20/21/22, 27, 181" (PDF). stagecoachbus.com.


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