English Place-name Society

Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

Newton

Major Settlement in the Parish of Newton

Historical Forms

  • (to) niwantune c.972 ASCh
  • Newenton, Nuenton 1285 Ass
  • Neuton(e) c.1213 Fees 1457 Pat
  • Neuton(e) iuxta Leuerington 1285 Ass
  • Neuton(e) in Mers(che)lond 1298 ib
  • Neuton(e) by Wysbech 1354 Pat
  • Newton(e) 1291 Tax
  • Newton(e) Colvyle t.Eliz Colexxxvii
  • Colville (1360 Ipm)

Etymology

'The new farm,' v. nīwe , tūn . Colvyle from the family of John de Colville (1360 Ipm). Merschelond is the neighbouring Marshland (Nf).