Old photograph of children and headmaster outside the school in Newton Wamphray, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Wamphray is the name of the surrounding parish and of the Wamphray Water, which flows South West through the Wamphray Glen to join the River Annan near the small village, or hamlet, of Newton. The village is near the M74 motorway, near Annandale Water, roughly halfway between Moffat and Lockerbie, and has for centuries been close to the direct Glasgow to Carlisle route, which around 1776 was made into a turnpike road suitable for mail coaches travelling between England and Glasgow. Newton is on the main railway line south from Glasgow, and from about 1847 had its own station called Wamphray, but this closed in the 1960s. Newton Wamphray primary school has been closed for several years, local children generally go to primary school in Lockerbie.
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