Newbie Mains

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(NY 1742 6469) Newbie Castle (NR) (Site of)

OS 6" map (1945)

Newbie Castle was demolished about the year 1816 when the present farmsteading (NY16SE 22.00) was erected, mainly from its stones. All that now remains of the castle is a small portion of walling on a slight rise in the stackyard. It is said to have been surrounded by a moat with drawbridge at one time, but there are now no remains of these visible. It was once the stronghold of the Marquises of Annandale.

Name Book 1858

The remains of the castle consist of a few pieces of masonry at ground level; but insufficient to indicate any outline.

Visited by OS (WDJ) 23 October 1967.

EXTERNAL REFERENCE:

National Register of Archives for Scotland

NRA(s) 393 Bundle 161/1 (Johnstone of Annandale)

Agreement anent supply of nine long hundred of dales 'from a pil of dales now upon the Old Kai of Whithaven...to be shipped for Newbie in Scotland' by Oliver Wright, gent, 5 November 1657

NRA(s) 393 Bundle 158/2 (Johnstone of Annandale)

Articles of agreement between the Earl of Hartfell and William Langshaw, plumber and pewterer of the city of Carlyle, whereby said William is to deliver sheet lead for building at Newbie, 23 December 1658

NRA(s) 393 Bundle 157/1 (Johnstone of Annandale)

Glazing the house of Newbie. Discharge by David Young 'glassenwright and burges of Lanark' to Hew Sinclair, Chamberlain to the Earl of Hartfell, of £84 scots in part payment of a greater sum due for glazing, 12 May 1659

NRA(s) 393 Bundle 154

Glasswork. Account of glasswork wrought by William Simpsone, Glazier, at the house of Newbie in May 1680, 27 May 1680