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in the 120s AD. Certainly buildings, inhabited by the locals who provided for the needs of the soldiers when the Romans were there, and that the people who remained when the Romans went back south continued to live there, and that a population is recorded there from 650 AD onwards, until the
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On the main street is the Village Hall which was the school until 1937 when it was closed. The hall is used as the main meeting place and for other community functions – it is the only non-residential building in the village available for public use.
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One of the best known contemporary village residents is the journalist and author Liz Taylor who writes under the name Elisabeth McNeill. Her most famous novel is probably
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present day. The stonemasons, architects and other tradesmen who built Melrose Abbey were lodged here. In 1905 it was the site of a discovery of a very rare
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The old railway bridge at Leaderfoot is only a ten-minute walk from Newstead village. In 1865 the magnificent nineteen-arch
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The British Olympic sprinter Dr. Isobel "Quita" Barber (née Shivas, 19 April 1925 – 18 March 2013), who competed at the
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in Scotland. Set up by the masons, mainly to regulate training and craftsmanship of the apprentices, before becoming
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of Ravenswood was born in Edinburgh, to the well-known Fairfax family and spent his life in the
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Further Recollections – Life in the Village of Newstead at the Turn of the Century
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was constructed for the St Boswells Junction to Reston section of the
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Looking northeast from Eildon Hill North, Newstead below on the left
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It is reputedly the oldest continually-inhabited settlement in
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and, more recently, navvies working on the impressive railway
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St John's Wynd, a lane leading to the site of the first
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Newstead is located in Scottish Borders
Scottish Borders
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NT565341
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Scottish Borders
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Roxburgh, Ettrick and Lauderdale
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Scotland
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TD6
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