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Newburgh occurs as royal & law burgh of Fife, Scotland.
Pop. (1901) 1904.
These are placed on the Firth of Tay, 7 m. North.W. of Ladybank Junction per North British Railway.
Its industries primarily consist of the making of linen & floorcloth, malting & quarrying, & there are piscary, especially of salmon. A harbour is utilized for the transhipment of the shipment of Perth-attached vessels of ended 200 oodles.
In high ground, astir Single mile S.W., could have a remains (sole a pedestal) of Macduff's Cross, which marks the spot where the clan Macduff in return for its chief's services against Macbeth was granted rights of sanctuary and composition for murder done in hot blood.
Denmyln castle, about Ace mile S.E. of Newburgh, was a residence for supplementary than 250 years of the Balfour personal, of which them brothers, James (1600-1657), the annalist & Lyon King, & Andrew (1630-1694), founder of a Botanic Garden in Edinburgh, were the virtually all distinguished members.
Lindores abbey, the gem of the territorial dominioNorth, is placed on the Tay, just about Newburgh, & I mile N. of the village of Lindores. Of the Benedictine abbey, founded in 1178 by David, Earl of Huntingdon, brother of William the Lion, there only remain a groined arch of the primary entrance, a part of the west tower & more Early English fragments, however the ground project of the entirely structure potty however become traced. A monks were noted grower & their grove famed. At Blackearnside, a outdoors of alders, to the east of the village, Wallace defeated Aymer de Valence, 2nd Earl of Pembroke in 1298.
Mugdrum Island is offshore in the Firth dividing it into 'North Deep' & 'South Deep' trend lines.
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