Welcome to Visit Newtongrange Places
The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Newtongrange
Visit Newtongrange places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Newtongrange places to visit. A unique way to experience Newtongrange’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Newtongrange as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
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Newtongrange (listen (help·info) is a former mining village in Midlothian, Scotland. Known in local dialect as Nitten, or Nitten by the Bing. It became Scotland’s largest mining village with the sinking of the Lady Victoria Colliery and a shaft over 1600 feet deep in 1890s. When you visit Newtongrange, Walkfo brings Newtongrange places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Newtongrange Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Newtongrange
Visit Newtongrange – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 33 audio plaques & Newtongrange places for you to explore in the Newtongrange area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Newtongrange places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Why visit Newtongrange with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Newtongrange places with Walkfo Newtongrange to hear history at Newtongrange’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Newtongrange has 33 places to visit in our interactive Newtongrange map, with amazing history, culture & travel facts you can explore the same way you would at a museum or art gallery with information audio headset. With Walkfo, you can travel by foot, bike or bus throughout Newtongrange, being in the moment, without digital distraction or limits to a specific walking route. Our historic audio walks, National Trust interactive audio experiences, digital tour guides for English Heritage locations are available at Newtongrange places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Newtongrange & the surrounding areas.
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33 tourist, history, culture & geography spots
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Best Newtongrange places to visit
Newtongrange has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Newtongrange’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Newtongrange’s information audio spots:
National Mining Museum Scotland
The National Mining Museum Scotland was created in 1984 to preserve the physical surface remains of Lady Victoria Colliery at Newtongrange, Midlothian, Scotland. The colliery, sunk by the Lothian Coal Company in 1890, came into production in 1894. It was nationalised in 1947 and closed in 1981.
Cockpen and Carrington Parish Church
Cockpen and Carrington Parish Church is located to the south of the town of Bonnyrigg in Midlothian, Scotland. It is a congregation of the Church of Scotland. The current arrangement dates from 1975, when the two churches were united. The church’s tower is unusually tall for a comparatively small church and its design was copied for Kilconquhar Parish Church in Fife.
St David’s Church, Dalkeith
St David’s Church was founded in 1854 by Cecil Chetwynd Kerr, Marchioness of Lothian. It was designed by Joseph Hansom and is a category A listed building.
Melville Castle
Melville Castle is a three-storey Gothic castellated mansion situated less than a mile (2 km) west-south-west of Dalkeith, Midlothian, near the North Esk.
Gorebridge
Gorebridge is a former mining village in Midlothian, Scotland. It has four primary schools, Gorebridge Primary, Stobhill, St Andrews RC Primary and Gore Glen Primary. There are 29 listed buildings in Gorebridge including one Category B building (Harvieston Lodge), and two Category C buildings (Gorebridge old station and the Post Office)
Newbyres Castle
Newbyres Castle was a 16th-century tower house, in Gorebridge, Midlothian, Scotland. The tower occupied a roughly triangular position, which was naturally defended by deeply worn water-courses.
Visit Newtongrange plaques
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here Newtongrange has 1 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Newtongrange plaques audio map when visiting. Plaques like National Heritage’s “Blue Plaques” provide visual geo-markers to highlight points-of-interest at the places where they happened – and Walkfo’s AI has researched additional, deeper content when you visit Newtongrange using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Newtongrange plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.