Newton, Northamptonshire Family History Guide

Newton is an Ancient Parish in the county of Northamptonshire.

Other places in the parish include: Great Newton and Little Newton.

Alternative names: Newton-in-the-Willows

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

Parish registers: 1660
Bishop’s Transcripts: 1707

Nonconformists include:

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Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

NEWTON, a parish in Kettering district, Northampton; on the river Ise, 2½ miles E of Rushton r. station, and 3¾ N by E of Kettering. Post-town, Kettering. Acres, 1,050. Real property, £1, 534. Pop., 84. Houses, 20.

The manor belonged formerly to Pipewell abbey, and belongs now to the Duke of Buccleuch.

The living is a donative in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £40. Patron, the Duke of Buccleuch. The church was originally the private chapel of the Treshams, whose mansion stood adjacent to it; consists of nave, chancel, and S porch, with tower and spire; was restored in the nave, and enlarged by the addition of the chancel, in 1858; has five beautiful stained glass windows, by Clayton and Bell; and contains an alabaster monument of 1433 to the Treshams.

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

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Maps

Old maps of Britain and Europe from A Vision of Britain Through Time

Administration

County: Northamptonshire
Civil Registration District: Kettering
Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Peterborough (Episcopal Consistory)
Diocese: Peterborough
Rural Deanery: Higham Ferrers
Poor Law Union: Kettering
Hundred: Corby
Province: Canterbury