Newton Toney, Wiltshire

Historical Description

Newton Toney, a village and a parish in Wiltshire. The village stands on an affluent of the river Avon, 1½ mile E of the boundary with Hants, 3½ miles from Grately station on the L. & S.W.R., and 4 E by N of Amesbury. It has a post office under Salisbury; money order office, Amesbury; telegraph office, Cholderton. Acreage of parish, 2386; population, 292. The manor, with Wilbury House, belongs to the Malet family. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury; gross value, £300 with residence. Patron, Queen's College, Cambridge. The church is modern. There is 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

The Phillimore transcript of Marriages at Newton Tony 1591-1812, Wiltshire is available to browse online.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Newton Toney from the following:

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

Newspapers and Periodicals

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

• Salisbury and Winchester Journal
• Devizes and Wiltshire Gazette
• Wiltshire Independent
• Swindon Advertiser and North Wilts Chronicle