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Newton, with Scales

NEWTON, with Scales, a township, in the ecclesiastical parish of Lund, parish of Kirkham, union of the Fylde, hundred of Amounderness, N. division of Lancashire, 2 miles (S. E. by E.) from Kirkham; containing 324 inhabitants. Two carucates of land are mentioned as belonging to Newtune, in the Domesday survey. The Clifton family were lords of Scales before the 17th of Edward II. In inquisitions of the reigns of Henry VII. and VIII., Newton is named as a place within Scales. The township lies on the road from Kirkham to Preston, and comprises 1191 acres, of which 138 are roads, &c.; the cultivated land is equally divided between arable and pasture: the high land is strong clay, and the lower parts marshy; the surface generally is rather flat. Scales Hall is in the township; and a farmhouse now stands on the site of the ancient mansion of Newton Hall. The impropriate tithes have been commuted for £160, payable to the Dean and Chapter of Christ-Church, Oxford, and the vicarial for £90. A Blue-coat school was founded and liberally endowed by John Hornby, in 1707; and James Boys, in 1809, bequeathed £800 in furtherance of the charity, the annual income of which is at present about £481.

Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.

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