Tour Scotland 4K Winter travel video, with Scottish accordion music, of a road trip drive on narrow rural roads on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit to Newtyle in Angus, Britain, United Kingdom. Newtyle is a village in the west of Angus. It lies 11 miles to the north of Dundee in the south west of Strathmore, between Hatton Hill and Heather Hill in the Sidlaws. The village sits on gently sloping ground with a north west aspect. The original village of Newtyle was centred around the church and what are now Kirkton Road and Smiddy road. Hatton Castle to the south and Newbigging to the north lie within the parish boundary. It is located 11 miles to the north of Dundee in the south west of Strathmore. Newtyle was the northern terminus for the first commercial railway in Scotland, the Dundee and Newtyle Railway which opened in 1832. The grid street plan of the central part of the village was laid out shortly after the railway opened and was intended to form the basis for a manufacturing centre which could take advantage of the communications link to Dundee. Rail services to and from Newtyle were in decline for a number of years before the line was closed in the 1960s. John Oliphant of Newtyle was born in 1552, in Berriedale, Caithness, Scotland, his father, Laurence Oliphant 4th Lord Oliphant, was 17 and his mother, Margaret Hay, was 17. He married Jean Chisholm in 1574, in Perthshire, Scotland. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He died on 1 February 1603, in Scotland, at the age of 51. The present Newtyle parish church was built in 1870 on the site of one built in 1767. The earliest recorded church was granted to Arbroath on its foundation by William the Lion in 1178, and it was dedicated to an unknown saint by Bishop de Bernham in 1242. By the meteorological calendar, the first day of Winter is always 1st December in Scotland; ending on 28th of February. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day. Find things to see and do in Scotland where you are always welcome. When driving on Scottish roads in Scotland slow down and enjoy the trip
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