Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Neuton 1278 ChFor 1281 Court 1724 NotCestr

• Neuton iuxta Upton 1317 Plea

• Neuton in Wyrhale 1345 ib

• le Neuton 1347 ChFor

• Neweton 1291 Tax 1595 AD

• Newton 1295 Tab 1516 Plea

• Newton in Wirrall 1367 ChRR 1582

• Nuton 1695 Sheaf

Etymology

'New farm', v. nīwe , tūn . This was a new settlement early in the fourteenth century. In 1347ChFor it was reported that Lord Warin Trussell (floruit 10 E 2 (1317–18), Orm2 iii 229) had made a certain vill called le Neuton within the bounds of the forest of Wirral without licence and had dug a hundred pits there. His name persists in Trussels Hay infra . The pits would probably be clay-pits, cf. Larton supra .