Old Newton, Suffolk
Historical Description
Newton, Old, a village and a parish in Suffolk. The village stands 3 miles NNE of Stowmarket, and 1 mile E from Haughley Junction station on the G.E.R., and has a post office under Stowmarket; money order and telegraph office, Haughley. The parish includes the larger portion of the hamlet of Dagworth, 1½ mile SW of the village, and comprises 2372 acres; population, 672. The manor of Old Newton belongs to the Pretyman family. Dagworth Hall was the seat of Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury, who was executed in the time of Henry VIII., figures picturesquely at the village, and is now a farmhouse. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £113 with residence. The church is an ancient building of flint in the Tudor style, consisting of chancel, vestry, nave, S porch, and a square western embattled tower. There is also a Primitive Methodist chapel, and between 4 and 5 acres of town land.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Suffolk | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Newton St. Mary | |
Hundred | Stow | |
Poor Law union | Stow |
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 Old Newton from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Newton, Old (St. Mary))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Suffolk is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Old 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 Suffolk papers online: