History
Despite its name, Newburgh is very old. It was given its name in 1266 when it received a royal charter from King Alexander III.
The nearby Lindores Abbey is even older. It was founded in a.d.1191 by Benedictine monks who originated in Abbeville, France.
They developed the soil and planted fruit trees, to grow fruit for their own consumption, to trade and to supply the Scottish royal court at Falkland. Their fruit was famous throughout Scotland.
The abbey was closed in the 1580s and is now a ruin, but the orchards that the monks planted had been divided into long narrow strips for cultivation by different people. These have been handed down through generations as the gardens of Newburgh. They continue to produce wonderful crops of plums, pears, apples and other fruit. Until relatively recently, there was an active jam-making industry in the town.
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