Neidpath, Saskatchewan

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Highway 720

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Neidpath, is a hamlet in Coulee Rural Municipality No. 136, Saskatchewan, Canada. The hamlet is located on Highway 363 and Highway 720 about 25 km east of the city of Swift Current.

Neidpath was named after Neidpath Castle, near Peebles, Scotland. The name was suggested by the first postmaster, John Mitchell, whose family emigrated from Peebles.{{cite book

|last = Parson

|first = Edna Tyson

|title = Neidpath District, 1909-1919: Earliest Pioneers

|work = Land I Can Own : a biography of Anthony Tyson and the pioneers who homesteaded with him at Neidpath, Saskatchewan

|publisher = Our Roots – Canada's Local Histories Online

|year = 1981

|url = http://ourroots.ca/toc.aspx?id=4847&qryID=70f04a93-50b5-423a-ad11-29324f513f17

|access-date = 2008-04-07}}{{rp|55}} The town was located on a branch line of the Canadian Northern Railway (later Canadian National) that ran to Avonlea, Saskatchewan.{{cite web

|url = http://www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=8531

|title = Canadian National Railway Station Building (Gravelbourg)

|work = Canadian Register of Historic Places

|publisher = Parks Canada

|access-date = 2017-01-17}}

During its heyday Neidpath had four grain elevators, two of which still stand derelict today. At one time Neidpath even had its own telephone company, the Neidpath Rural Telephone Central Office.{{rp|81}} It also had hotels (including two Chinese hotels and restaurants and the King George Hotel along Central Avenue), a pool hall, hardware store, and a blacksmith shop.{{rp|113}} By 1981, CN had abandoned the rail line.{{cite book |title=Our Towns: Saskatchewan Communities from Abbey to Zenon Park |last=McLennan |first=David |page=168 |date=2008-04-05 |publisher=University of Regina Press |isbn=978-0889772090}}