Searching for "NEWMAINS"

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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  • You have just searched a list of the main towns, villages and localities of Britain which we have kept as simple as possible. It is based on a much more detailed list of legally defined administrative units: counties, districts, parishes, wapentakes and so on. This is the real heart of our system, and you may be better off directly searching it. There are no units called "NEWMAINS" (excluding any that have already been grouped into the places you have already searched), but administrative unit searches can be narrowed by area and type, and broadened using wild cards and "sound-alike" matching:



  • If you are looking for hills, rivers, castles ... or pretty much anything other than the "places" where people live and lived, you need 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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