Newburgh, a royal burgh of Fife, near the Firth of Tay, 11 miles ESE. of Perth. It arose in connection with the neighbouring Benedictine abbey of Lindores (c. 1196); and in its vicinity also is the famous Cross Macduff. Pop. 1685. See A. Laing's Lindores and Newburgh (1876).
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 7: Maltebrun to Pearson, p. 454
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