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A History of Newtownards
Trevor McCavery
Prodigally built in warm, mellow sandstone, picturesquely sited under Scrabo, at the head of Strangford Lough, the ancient town of Newtown (pronounced Newton) has a history that is in every way the equal of its stunning setting.
This richly illustrated volume looks at Newtown in all its guises: at its enigmatic prehistory, at the rise of its great Celtic monastery, at the flourishing Norman town, given away as a wedding present; the plantation, when the language of the town became 'broad Scotch hardly to be understood by strangers'; the eighteenth century, when it was one of the worst of the notorious 'rotten boroughs' and the seat of a bitter dynastic conflict; the Regency town with its broad streets and fashionable villas, behind which lay fever-ridden backalleys and the poorhouse; though the Famine and the Home Rule Crisis, to the present day.
Book Details
ISBN 1 870132 70 X
Paperback 221 pages, 85 illustrations
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Book Reviews
'A fascinating story, lucidly told.' Belfast Telegraph
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