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Newburn

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    A village in the City of Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England, west of the city and on the north bank of the Tyne (OS grid ref NZ1665). countable, uncountable
  3. 3
    A civil parish of Fife, Scotland. countable, uncountable

Etymology

The Fife place-name was historically Nithbren (1150). Possibly from Pictish, perhaps from *Nith, an ethnonym, with a cognate of Welsh bryn (“hill”) or Welsh pren (“tree”).

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