This road marker is at the junction near Newton Farm, Wormit, and indicates directions (left or right) but not distances.
A photograph of the road marker at St Michael's crossroads, showing left to Newport and right to Ferryport (Tayport).
This photograph shows the Newport Inn, latterly the Newport Hotel, and then The Newport. It opened as a coaching inn in 1806.
The village of Maryton, to the east of Newport village, developed from the 1820s onwards, and the Maryton Inn (now 12 Tay Street) was established to operate as a coaching inn, with extensive stabling behind. It was unfortunately too far from the main turnpike road (Cupar Road) to be successful and in 1830 was sold ...
The Maryton Inn on Tay Street had extensive stabling behind on Union Street. This was sold after the Inn closed in 1830, and converted to housing.
The Woodhaven Inn, now known as Mars Cottage, operated as a hostelry until 1873, and offered a horse hiring service in addition. The last tenant, John Grant, was asked to leave to make way for the Captain of the Mars and his family, and the house was used for that purpose until the Mars left ...
21st August 1873 ".....I entered here nine years ago. My possession would be continued as long as I conducted the business in a satisfactory manner and that I have done. Until recently the business here has barely provided a living. I have greatly improved the garden - planted new bushes and trees. I have also laid ...
Newspaper report from the Fifeshire Journal (transcribed) about a fatal coaching accident in Newport on 3 March 1836, leading to the death of Alexander Kidd, a wright.
A poster advertising a coach service that passed through Newport on its way from Dundee to Edinburgh, and operated from 1842-1848.
Advertisement from 1810 for the Royal Fifeshire Union Coach service between Woodhaven and Pettycur on the Forth. This was being run by Mr Nicol, vintner of Woodhaven. Coaches had no time for unscheduled stops to pass on news so during the Napoleonic Wars coaches were decorated with greenery to signify a victory over the French.
These pictures depict just some of the many coaches passing through Newport in the early 19th century.
Images of coaches similar to those passing through Newport in the early part of the 19th century.
Map showing the coaching route, the 'Great Road' between the Forth and the Tay.
Map of the Newport - Tayport turnpike road, 'surveyed 1831 under direction of W. Blackadder by W. Baillie, Land Surveyor, Dundee'. Map is entitled 'Scotscraig'.
These photographs show two from a series of milestones along the Great Road through Fife. They were made by Alexander Russell's Foundry in Kirkcaldy and erected in 1824.