Newborough

Newborough was the manor of Robert de Ferrers, earl of Derby, in 1141, who gave all its tithes to the monks of Tutbury. In the reign of Henry VIII. it passed from his mother to Sir William Hollys, who in the 32nd of that king was lord mayor of London. It contains 2762 acres, 770 inhabitants, 158 houses, and real property valued at £4804. The living is a perpetual curacy worth £107, in the gift of the vicar of Hanbury. It is a township-chapelry, and has a partially endowed school for boys, and a free school for girls. The chief residences are Hollybush Hall and Hoarcross Hall. Soon after the Conquest, Robert de Ferrers established a new borough at Edgarster, now Agardsley, "where was a hermitage, granted to the priory of Tutbury." It afterwards passed through the families of Kinnersley, Whittington, and Egerton to that of Chetwynd, and so on to its present possessors.