Newbigging
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  Newbigging Location within South Lanarkshire | |
| OS grid reference | NT013458 |
| Council area | |
| Lieutenancy area | |
| Country | Scotland |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | LANARK |
| Postcode district | ML11 |
| Dialling code | 01555 |
| Police | Scotland |
| Fire | Scottish |
| Ambulance | Scottish |
| UK Parliament | |
| Scottish Parliament | |
Newbigging (Scots : Neebicken) is a hamlet in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. [1] It is near Dunsyre at the southern end of the Pentland Hills. [2] It is on the A72 Carnwath to Peebles road.
South Lanarkshire is one of 32 unitary authorities of Scotland. It borders the south-east of the City of Glasgow and contains some of Greater Glasgow's suburban towns, also containing many rural towns and villages. It also shares borders with Dumfries and Galloway, East Ayrshire, East Renfrewshire, North Lanarkshire, the Scottish Borders and West Lothian. It includes most of the historic county of Lanarkshire.
North Lanarkshire is one of 32 council areas of Scotland. It borders the northeast of the City of Glasgow and contains many of Glasgow's suburbs and commuter towns and villages. It also borders East Dunbartonshire, Falkirk, Stirling, South Lanarkshire and West Lothian. The council covers parts of the traditional counties of Dunbartonshire, Lanarkshire and Stirlingshire.
Lanarkshire, also called the County of Lanark, is a historic county, lieutenancy area and registration county in the central Lowlands of Scotland.
East Kilbride is the largest town in South Lanarkshire in Scotland and the country's sixth-largest locality by population. It was also designated Scotland's first new town on 6 May 1947. The area lies on a raised plateau to the south of the Cathkin Braes, about eight miles southeast of Glasgow and close to the boundary with East Renfrewshire.
Motherwell is a town and former burgh in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, south east of Glasgow. It has a population of around 32,120. Historically in the parish of Dalziel and part of Lanarkshire, Motherwell is the headquarters for North Lanarkshire Council. Geographically the River Clyde separates Motherwell from Hamilton to the west whereas the South Calder Water separates Motherwell from Carfin to the north-east and New Stevenston and Bellshill towards the north.
Newbigging is a village in Angus, Scotland, two miles northeast of Dundee. The name "Newbigging" originally referred to a "new bigging" or "new cottar town" (hamlet). The village is roughly two miles north of Monifieth.
Newbigging is the name of several places in Scotland:
Thomas Somerville, 1st Lord Somerville,, was a Lord of the Parliament of Scotland.
Thomas Newbigging was a Scottish historian, writer and engineer.
The Dolphinton Branch refers to two railway branch lines in Lanarkshire and Peeblesshire, Scotland, built in the nineteenth century.
Lawrence Heyworth was a merchant based in Liverpool, England, who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Derby.
John Brown Clark or Clarke CBE LLD FRSE was a Scottish mathematician. He was headmaster of George Heriot’s School from 1908 to 1926. He served as Vice President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1931–34.
Patrick Small Keir Newbigging FRSE FRSSA FRCSE (1813–1864) was a Scottish surgeon and general practitioner. He was President of the Royal Medical Society and of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts. Together with his father, Sir William Newbigging he formed one of the few father-son pairs of former Presidents of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. His observations on the origin of the heart sounds and of the apex beat of the heart made a significant contribution to the debate.
Sir David Kennedy Newbigging, OBE, DL is a British businessman and Hong Kong politician born in China. He was the Tai-pan of Jardine Matheson & Co, the leading British trading firm in East Asia and unofficial member of the Executive Council and the Legislative Council of Hong Kong.
Newbigging railway station served the hamlet of Newbigging, South Lanarkshire, Scotland from 1867 to 1945 on the Dolphinton branch.
Alexander Newbigging was a Scottish footballer who played in the Football League for Nottingham Forest, in the Southern Football League for Queens Park Rangers, Reading and Coventry City, and in the Scottish Football League for Abercorn and Rangers. Usually a goalkeeper, he is also recorded as having played outfield as a forward.
William Menzies Newbigging was a Scottish professional footballer who played for Tottenham Hotspur, Motherwell, Folkestone, Fulham and Queens Park Rangers.
Elections to South Lanarkshire Council took place on 5 May 2022 on the same day as the 31 other Scottish local government elections. The election used the 20 wards created under the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004, with 64 councillors being elected. Each ward elected either 3 or 4 members, using the STV electoral system.
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