Newport-on-Tay

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Newport-on-Tay

Newport-on-Tay (Scots)


OS grid reference:	NO365325



Population:	7,922



Council area:	Fife
Constituent country:	Scotland
Sovereign state:	United Kingdom

Police force:	Fife Constabulary
Lieutenancy area:	Fife
Former county:	Fife

Post town:	NEWPORT-ON-TAY
Postal:	DD6
Telephone:	01382


Scottish Parliament:	North East Fife Mid Scotland and Fife
UK Parliament:	North East Fife
European Parliament:	Scotland

Newport-on-Tay is a small town in the north east of Fife in Scotland. It is a suburb of Dundee located opposite the city between the south ends of the Tay Rail Bridge and the Tay Road Bridge. The burgh of Newport-on-Tay also includes the town of Wormit.

The Fife Coastal Path passes through Newport.

[edit] History

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

In the 19th century the town expanded quickly. In 1715 new pier and inn were built. The work was funded by the Guilds of Dundee and they called the resulting settlement "New Dundee". Thomas Telford built a new harbour in the 1820s, and the town expanded and grew into a commuter suburb of Dundee as the prosperous jute manufacturers, industrialists and the middle and upper working class of the city established their fashionable residences in the town.