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2 unusual facts about Newton Mearns


Newton Mearns

More recently, the town appeared as the setting for the thriller novel Aztec Love Song (Weathervane Press 2009, ISBN 978-0-9562193-2-9) by Marty Ross, a Scottish author best known for his BBC radio plays who grew up in the town and studied at Mearns Castle High School.

It then passed to the Maxwells of Nether Pollok in 1648 and then the Stewarts of Blackhall in 1660.


Busby, East Renfrewshire

Until the 1780s Busby village consisted of a scatter of cottages along a track leading from Carmunnock to Mearns.


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