Newton Cottages

Two rows of substantial stone fronted homes fronting onto Main Street, Newton. Each row contained six homes with two or three rooms plus a scullery. Numbers 2,4,6,8,10,& 12, are on the north side of Main Street, 31, 33, 35, 37, 39, 41, 43 are on the south side. Presumably built to accommodate workers at the Duddingston shale mines, the houses were sold to private owners during the period 1965-67.

Location map

Detailed maps

Archive plans

See full record, 217232

See full record, 217232

See full record, 217238

See full record, 217238

Archive images

See full record LVSAV2015.065

LVSAV2011.111

Recent images

Newton cottages, 16 ‎July ‎2011

Newton cottages, 16 ‎July ‎2011

Newton cottages, 16 ‎July ‎2011

Newton cottages, 16 ‎July ‎2011

Additional Resources

Additional Resources

• Oral history transcript: William Erskine
• Oral history transcript: Mr & Mrs Paterson

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• 217232 - Disposition - No 2 Newton, Winchburgh - Photocopy relating to No 2 Newton, Winchburgh. The document records the sale of the property to Donald Fletcher Yuill and his wife Marion Weir Watson Waddell or Jones or Yuill for the sum of £250 with entry as at 10th September 1967. Includes a map, titled Plan referred to. This shows the location of the property of 0.050 acres within Winchburgh at a scale of 1:2500, as well as a 1:240 scale plan of the property, showing it in more detail.
  
• 217233 - Disposition - No 4 Newton, Winchburgh - Photocopy relating to No 4 Newton, Winchburgh. The document records the sale of the property to Robert McCann for the sum of £300 with entry as at 2nd January 1964. Accompanied by a map, titled Plan referred to. This shows the location of the property of 0.047 acres within Winchburgh at a scale of 1:2500, as well as a 1:240 scale plan of the property, outlined in red, showing it in more detail. On both plans, the common access road is shown in brown.
  
• 217235 - Disposition - No 8 Newton, Winchburgh - Photocopy relating to No 8 Newton, Winchburgh. The document records the sale of the property to James Swan for the sum of £300 with entry as at 2nd January 1964. Accompanied by a map, titled Plan referred to. This shows the location of the property of 0.047 acres within Winchburgh at a scale of 1:2500, as well as a 1:240 scale plan of the property, outlined in red, showing it in more detail. On both plans, the common access road is shown in brown.
  
• 217237 - Disposition - No 12 Newton, Winchburgh - Photocopy relating to No 12 Newton, Winchburgh. The document records the sale of the property to Kenneth Michael Madden Irwin for the sum of £1170 with entry as at 10th May 1967. Includes a map, titled Plan referred to. This shows the location of the property of 0.071 acres within Winchburgh at a scale of 1:2500, as well as a 1:240 scale plan of the property, outlined in red, showing it in more detail. On both plans, the common access road is shown in brown.
  
• 217238 - Disposition - No 31 Newton, Winchburgh - Photocopy relating to No 31 Newton, Winchburgh. The document records the sale of the property to Thomas Ferguson Hamilton and Catherine McIntosh Hamilton for the sum of £1050 with entry as at [illegible] 1966. Includes a map, titled Plan referred to. This shows the location of the property of 0.070 acres within Winchburgh at a scale of 1:2500, as well as a 1:240 scale plan of the property, outlined in red, showing it in more detail. On both plans, the common access road is shown in brown.
  
• 178962 - Disposition - 33 Newton, Winchburgh. - Photocopy relating to Disposition by BP Exploration Company (Associated Holdings) Limited (formerly the Oakbank Oil Company Limited) in favour of Mrs Elizabeth Gordon Smith McLean or Wardrop, 33 Newton, Winchburgh. at a cost of £300, with feuduty of £5 7s 8d per annum; dated 8th January 1964. The photocopy is of poor quality and difficult to read in places.
  
• 178961 - Disposition - 35 Newton, Winchburgh - Photocopy relating to Disposition by BP Exploration Company (Associated Holdings) Limited (formerly the Oakbank Oil Company Limited) in favour of William Kerr, 35 Newton, Winchburgh; at a cost of £300, with feuduty of £5 7s 8d per annum; dated 14th March 1966. Includes Scale Plan area edged in red Scale 1/2500. The photocopy is of poor quality and difficult to read in places. Also included is a letter related to the sale.
  
• 178960 - Disposition - 37 Newton, Winchburgh - Photocopy relating to Disposition by BP Exploration Company (Associated Holdings) Limited (formerly the Oakbank Oil Company Limited) in favour of James Patrick Harrison and Mrs Elizabeth Findlay Grant or Harrison, 37 Newton, Winchburgh; at a cost of £300, with feuduty of £5 7s 8d per annum; dated 1966. Includes Scale Plan area edged in red Scale 1/2500. The photocopy is of poor quality and difficult to read in places.
  
• 178959 - Disposition - 39 Newton, near Winchburgh - Photocopy relating to Disposition by BP Exploration Company (Associated Holdings) Limited (formerly the Oakbank Oil Company Limited) in favour of John Bruce Henderson Littie residing at 39, Newton, near Winchburgh; at a cost of £550, with feuduty of £5 7s 8d per annuml dated 28th November 1963. Scaled Plan area edged in red Scale 1/2500. The photocopy is of poor quality and difficult to read in places.
  
• 178963 - Disposition - No 41 Newton, Winchburgh - Photocopy (date unclear) relating to Disposition by BP Exploration Company (Associated Holdings) Limited (formerly the Oakbank Oil Company Limited) in favour of John Davidson Randall No 41 Newton, Winchburgh. at a cost of £250, with feuduty of £5.40p per annum; dated 27th October 1969. Includes Scale Plan area edged in red Scale 1/2500. The photocopy is of poor quality and difficult to read in places.
  
• 178964 - Disposition - 43 Newton, Winchburgh - Photocopy relating to Disposition by BP Exploration Company (Associated Holdings) Limited (formerly the Oakbank Oil Company Limited) in favour of Peter Drysdale and Mrs Jane Anne Wight or Drysdale, 43 Newton, Winchburgh; at a cost of £250, with feuduty of £5 7s 8d per annum; dated 2nd January 1964. The photocopy is of poor quality and difficult to read in places.