North Newnton, Wiltshire

Historical Description

Newnton, North, or Newington, a village and a parish in Wiltshire. The village stands on the river Avon, 2 miles from Woodborough station on the G.W.R., and 8½ ESE of Devizes. Post town, Pewsey. The parish includes the tithings of Hilcott, Cuttenham, and part of Bottlesford. Acreage, 1146; population of the civil parish, 332; of the ecclesiastical, 367. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. The Earl of Normanton is lord of the manor. The living is a rectory and vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury; net value, £290. Patron, the Earl of Pembroke. The tower of the church is ancient, and the nave was restored in 1862.

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 North Newnton from the following:

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

Maps

Online maps of North Newnton 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 Wiltshire papers online:

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