Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Newtonmore

Newtonmore, a village in Kingussie parish, Inverness-shire, near the left bank of the Spey, and ½ mile NNW of Newtonmore station on the Highland railway, this being 27 ¼ miles SW of Grantown. It has a post and railway telegraph office under Kingussie, a public school, and fairs on the Tuesdays of April and October after Beauly. Pop. (1871) 305, (1881) 306.—Ord. Sur., sh. 64, 1874.


(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)

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Feature Description: "a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Inverness Shire ScoCnty
Place: Newtonmore

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