Newburgh Explained

Newburgh ("new" + the English/Scots word "burgh") may refer to:

Places

Scotland

• Newburgh, Fife, a former royal burgh
• Newburgh, Aberdeenshire, a village

England

• Newburgh, Lancashire, a village
• Newburgh, North Yorkshire, a village
• Newburgh Priory, North Yorkshire
• Winfrith Newburgh, Dorset

Canada

• Newburgh, Ontario, a village

United States

• Newburgh, Indiana, a town
• Newburg, Jasper County, Iowa, an unincorporated community formerly known as Newburgh
• Newburgh, Maine, a town
• Newburgh (city), New York, named after Newburgh, Fife, Scotland, by Scottish emigrants
• Newburgh (town), New York, adjacent to the City of Newburgh
• Newburgh, Ohio, a village that was annexed by the city of Cleveland in 1873; now the South Broadway neighborhood
• Newburgh Heights, Ohio

People

• William of Newburgh (1130s–1190s), 12th century English historian
• Earl of Newburgh, created in the Peerage of Scotland in 1660 for James Livingston, 1st Viscount of Newburgh, along with the subsidiary titles Viscount of Kynnaird and Lord Levingston
• Brockhill Newburgh (c. 1659–11 January 1741), Ireland MP, chairman of Linen Board
• Thomas Newburgh (c.1695–1779), Ireland, poet

Ships

• USS Newburgh (ID-1369), also reported as ID-3768, a United States Navy cargo ship in commission in 1919

See also

• Newberg (disambiguation)
• Newborough (disambiguation)
• Newburg (disambiguation)
• Newburgh Conspiracy, what appeared to be a planned military coup by the Continental Army in March 1783, when the American Revolutionary War was at its end