Newtongrange

Newtongrange
Scottish Gaelic: *Baile Ùr na Grainnse*
Scots: *Nitten*
Newtongrange Scottish Gaelic: Baile Ùr na Grainnse; Scots: Nitten;
	Main Street, Newtongrange
	Newtongrange Location within Midlothian
Population	5,341
OS grid reference	NT332644
Council area	Midlothian;
Lieutenancy area	Midlothian;
Country	Scotland
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	DALKEITH
Postcode district	EH22
Dialling code	0131
Police	Scotland
Fire	Scottish
Ambulance	Scottish
UK Parliament	Midlothian;
Scottish Parliament	Midlothian South, Tweeddale and Lauderdale;

Newtongrange (listen^ⓘ) is a former mining village in Midlothian, Scotland. Known in local dialect as Nitten, or Nitten by the Bing (listen^ⓘ), it became Scotland's largest mining village in the 1890s, with the sinking of the Lady Victoria Colliery and a shaft over 1600 feet deep. This closed in 1981 but today houses the National Mining Museum, an Anchor Point of ERIH - The European Route of Industrial Heritage.

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