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Survey of English Place-Names

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Newton, Newton Hall

Early-attested site in the Parish of West Kirby

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 .