Newton, Cambridgeshire

Historical Description

Newton (near Cambridge), a parish in Cambridgeshire, 1½ mile SE of Harston station on the Cambridge, Royston, and Hitchin branch of the G.N.R., and 6 miles S by W of Cambridge. Post town, Cambridge; money order and telegraph office, Harston. Acreage, 994; population of the civil parish, 196; of the ecclesiastical, with Hauxton, 476. The manor belongs to the Dean and Chapter of Ely. Newton Manor House and Newton Hall are chief residences. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the vicarage of Hauxton, in the diocese of Ely; joint gross value, £274 with residence, in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of Ely. The church is an ancient building of stone and clunch in the Early English and later styles; consists of nave, transepts, and chancel, with an embattled western tower; and contains an old hexagonal font.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Civil Registration

For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Newton from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Newton (St. Margaret))

Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Cambridgeshire is available to browse.

Maps

Online maps of Newton are available from a number of sites:

• Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• Google Streetview.
• National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
• OpenStreetMap.
• old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
• Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)

Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Cambridgeshire papers online:

• Cambridge Independent Press
• Cambridge Chronicle and Journal
• Huntingdon, Bedford & Peterborough Gazette

Visitations Heraldic

The Visitations of Cambridgeshire 1575 and 1619 is available online.