Newton Regis or Newton in the Thistles, Warwickshire
Historical Description
Newton Regis or Newton-in-the Thistles, a village and a parish in Warwickshire. The village stands within i½ mile of the boundaries with Staffordshire and Leicestershire, 1½ miles NNE of Polesworth station on the L. & N.W.R., and 5 ENE of Tamworth, and has a post and money order office under Tamworth; telegraph office, Polesworth. It has also a reading-room and a lecture-room. The parish includes a tract called No Man's Heath, which was formerly extra parochial, and was constituted an ecclesiastical parish in 1873. Acreage, 1339; population of the civil parish, 488; of the ecclesiastical parish of Newton Regis, 357; of No Man's Heath, 131. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Worcester; gross value, £300 with residence. The church is a handsome edifice with tower and lofty spire. The living of No Man's Heath is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield; gross value, £100 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Lichfield.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
| Ancient County | Warwickshire | |
| Ecclesiastical parish | Newton-in-the-Thistles St. Mary | |
| Hundred | Hemlingford | |
| Poor Law union | Tamworth |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The Warwickshire County Record Office hold the following registers for Newton Regis:
| Baptisms | Marriages | Burials |
|---|---|---|
| 1591-1974 | 1602-1995 | 1602-1949 |
Most of the records prior to 1911 have been digitised and are available on Ancestry.co.uk
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Newton Regis or Newton in the Thistles from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Newton-in-the-Thistles, or Newton-Regis (St. Mary))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Warwickshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Newton Regis or Newton in the Thistles 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 Warwickshire papers online:
Visitations Heraldic
The Visitation of Warwickshire 1619 is available on the Heraldry page.