Water Newton Huntingdonshire Family History Guide

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Water Newton is an Ancient Parish in the county of Huntingdonshire.

Alternative names: Newton Water

Parish church: St. Remigius

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1688
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1604

Nonconformists include:

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

NEWTON-WATER, a village and a parish in the district of Peterborough and county of Huntingdon. The village stands on the river Nen at the boundary with Northamptonshire, ¾ of a mile E of Ermine-street, 1¼ ESE of Wansford r. station, and 6 W of Peterborough; and has a post-office under Wansford. The parish comprises 863 acres. Real property, £1, 831. Pop., 149. Houses, 31. A Roman station is supposed to have been here; and numerous Roman coins and other Roman relics have been found. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely. Value, £270. Patron, E. S. Knipe, Esq. The church is early English, in good condition; has a tower and spire; and contains a curious monument.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

NEWTON, WATER (St. Remigius), a parish, in the union of Peterborough, hundred of Norman-Cross, county of Huntingdon, 6 miles (N. N. W.) from Stilton; containing 97 inhabitants. The parish comprises about 850 acres, and contains quarries of building-stone, but not at present wrought; the river Nene skirts it. The living is a rectory, valued in the king’s books at £6. 9. 2., and in the gift of the Rev. Randolph Richard Knipe: the tithes have been commuted for a rent-charge of £231, and the glebe comprises 25 acres. The church is a neat plain structure. Roman coins and fragments of tessellated pavement have been found.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

Administration

  • County: Huntingdonshire
  • Civil Registration District: Peterborough
  • Probate Court: Court of the Commissary of the Bishop of Lincoln and of the Archdeacon in the Archdeaconry of Huntingdon
  • Diocese: Pre-1837 – Lincoln, Post-1836 – Ely
  • Rural Deanery: Yaxley
  • Poor Law Union: Peterborough
  • Hundred: Norman Cross
  • Province: Canterbury