Newbridge Inn, Ratho
Edinburgh, Scotland
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The Newbridge Inn was built in 1683 on land owned by Archibald Hope of Raukellour. On 12 December 1700
he sold some of the land, including the Inn to John Dundas & Spouse for "20 merks Scots money, 2 lambs, to be
given on Whitsunday and Marksmas and 6 good hens yearly on Whitsunday”. On 16 July 1726 between 4 and 5
afternoon John Dundas sold the land and the Inn to James Liston for the princely sum of £385.15.6d. On April 6
1737 he sold it to Patrick Hay for “a certain sum of money as the agreed and adequate price and hold me well
content and satisfied and paid”. In 1759 on 22 August, Patrick Hay sold the land and the Inn to George Reid,
a brewer and farmer, for a mere £200.0.0d. George in turn, willed it to his son Cumberland Reid on 14 June 1815
and in 1818, Cumberland left it to his nephew, john Reid, a merchant from Leith. Keeping it in the family.
John sold it to his brother James for sum of £700.0.0d on 27 August 1821. On 25 March 1824 James Reid sold only
the Inn to Helen Cowie Buchanan for £465.0.0d. After 62years, Helen sold on to Robert Gordon on 15 May 1866 for
£725.0.0d. Robert Gordon unfortunately, took a loss and sold it on to John Aitkinson for £665.0.0d. And on 3
July 1877 had gone down even further, when it was sold yet again for only £300.0.0d to James Masterton, after his
death the inn passed to his wife Christina Garlick Masterton who gifted it to her younger son,
John Masterton. John sold it on to his brother James Masterton
for £250.0.0d in 1898. In 1930, James Masterton Jnr, with no family of his own
to pass on to, willed it to his nephew, James Yule Wemyss. When James Wemyss died, his wife Pleasance Cecilly
Wemyss took over the running of the Inn in 1963.
After 106 years and four generations in the same family, the Newbridge Inn was sold to David and June Morris,
on 28 June 1983.
==Sources==
*The above extracts have been taken from the original title deeds still in existence, dating back from 1683 to the present day.