Newton upon Trent, Lincolnshire

Historical Description

Newton-upon-Trent, a village and a parish in Lincolnshire. The village stands on the east bank of the river Trent at the boundary with Notts, 3½ miles S of Torksey station on the M.S. & L.R., and 10 S by E of Gainsborough, with a post, money order, and telegraph office under Newark. The parish comprises 1575 acres; population, 307. There are some picturesque cliffs on the banks of the Trent, about half a mile from the village. Dunham Bridge; across the Trent here, was erected in 1832 at a cost of £17,000, and is a cast-iron structure of four arches resting on stone piers, and each 118 feet in span. Spring tides reach the bridge with a rise of 4 feet, and there are wharves. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; net value, £130 with residence. The church is an ancient building of stone in the Early English style, with some Norman remains. There ia a Wesleyan chapel.

Administration

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

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Church Records

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Civil Registration

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Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Newton upon Trent from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of Newton upon Trent 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 Lincolnshire papers online:

• Grantham Journal
• Grimsby Daily Telegraph
• Lincolnshire Chronicle
• Lincolnshire Echo
• Lincolnshire Free Press
• Louth and North Lincolnshire Advertiser
• Stamford Mercury