Newport-on-Tay

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Newport-on-Tay
Scots: Newport-on-Tay
Newport-on-Tay shown within Scotland
Population	7,922
OS grid reference	NO365325
Council area	Fife
Lieutenancy area	Fife
Constituent country	Scotland
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	NEWPORT-ON-TAY
Postcode district	DD6
Dialling code	01382
Police	Fife
Fire	Fife
Ambulance	Scottish
European Parliament	Scotland
UK Parliament	North East Fife
Scottish Parliament	North East Fife Mid Scotland and Fife
List of places: UK • Scotland

Coordinates: 56°28′49″N 3°01′57″W / 56.48031, -3.03257

Newport-on-Tay is a small town in the north east of Fife in Scotland. Practically speaking, 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 village 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 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 commuter suburb of Dundee as the prosperous jute manufacturers, industrialists and the middle and upper working class of Dundee established fashionable residences in Newport .

[edit] Present

Newport currently has a population of about eight thousand, mostly residing in stone houses built before World War II. The town centre comprises two main streets where may be found a small variety of shops, two public houses, a Catholic church and a Church of Scotland building. There is one primary school, Newport Primary, with older pupils attending secondary school in St Andrews. Public bus routes are the 77 to Dundee, 96 to St Andrews, 42 to Cupar and the X54 to Edinburgh via Glenrothes and Dunfermline