Old Photograph Newtonmore Scotland

Old photograph of cottages, shop, houses and people in Newtonmore, Scotland. The village does not have a long history. Before the early 1800s, the local population lived in townships in Glen Banchor, a mile or so to the West and about 200 feet above the level of the present village. The building of the road bridge across the River Spey in the 1760s encouraged a few people to build houses lower down. The coming of the railway in the mid 1860s led to the village growing faster and the 1892 census shows a village with 364 inhabitants in 88 houses.



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