We could not match "NEWMAINS" in our simplified list of the main towns and villages, or as a postcode. There are several other ways of finding places within Vision of Britain, so read on for detailed advice and 15 possible matches we have found for you:
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There are no units called "NEWMAINS"
(excluding any that have already been grouped into the places you
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to look in our collection of Historical Gazetteers.
This contains the complete text of three gazetteers published in the
late 19th century over 90,000 entries.
Although there are no descriptive gazetteer entries for
placenames exactly matching your search term (other than those
already linked to "places"), the following
entries mention "NEWMAINS":
Place name County Entry Source Allanton Lanarkshire Newmains station. Having passed to his ancestors from Arbroath Abbey, it is a seat of Sir H. J. Seton-Steuart Groome Cambusnethan Lanarkshire Newmains), Overtown, and Newmains. With total accommodation for 4234 children, these had (1880) an average attendance of 3621, and grants Groome Cambusnethan Lanarkshire Newmains, Overtown, Coltness Ironworks, part of Shotts Ironworks, and other towns and vils. engaged in the iron trade. Near the Clyde Bartholomew Chapel Lanarkshire Chapel, a village in Cambusnethan parish, Lanarkshire, near Newmains. Groome Coldingham Berwickshire Newmains, Renton House, Stoneshiel House, and Sunnyside; and 12 proprietors hold each an annual value of £500 and upwards Groome Coltness Lanarkshire forms part of NEWMAINS: which see. On the South Calder Water, 1 mile N. of Wishaw sta., is Coltness House . Bartholomew Coltness Lanarkshire Houldsworth, Esq. (b. 1825; suc. 1868), who owns 3717 acres in the shire, valued at £11,498 per annum. For Coltness Iron-works see Newmains. Groome Dryburgh Abbey Berwickshire Newmains, in 1767 to Lieut. -Col. Charles Tod, and finally in 1786 to David Stewart Erskine, eleventh Earl of Buchan Groome Houndwood Berwickshire Newmains, Berrybank, Sunnyside, Coveyheugh, Stoneshiel, Fairlaw House, and Renton House; has vestiges of two or more old towers, one of them Groome Lanarkshire Lanarkshire Newmains (including Coltness Ironworks), Rutherglen, Shettleston (including Eastmuir and Sandyhill), Stonefield, Stonehouse, Strathavon, Tollcross (including Fullarton), Uddingston, Whifflet and Rosehall Groome Murdostoun Castle Lanarkshire Newmains. Its owner, Robert King Stewart, Esq. (b. 1853; suc. 1866), holds 1760 acres in the shire, valued at £2833 per annum Groome Murdostoun Castle Lanarkshire Murdostoun Castle , seat, Shotts par., Lanarkshire, on South Calder Water, 1 mile N. of Newmains ry. sta. Bartholomew Newmains Lanarkshire Newmains , town with ry. sta., Cambusnethan par., Lanarkshire, 2 miles NE. of Wishaw by road and 6 miles SE. of Holytown Bartholomew Newmains Lanarkshire Newmains, a small town in Cainbusnethan parish, Lanarkshire, on the cross-railway from Morningside to Holytown, adjacent to the Coltness Groome Renfrew Renfrewshire Newmains and Bogside. From this the course is up a small burn to Arkleston Print-Works, and then westward to a point Groome
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