Newton, Cambridgeshire

Description
Newton (near Cambridge), a parish in Cambridgeshire, 1 1/2 mile SE of Harston station on the Cambridge, Royston, and Hitchin branch of the G.N.R., and 6 miles S by W of Cambridge. Post town, Cambridge; money order and telegraph office, Harston. Acreage, 994; population of the civil parish, 196 ; of the ecclesiastical, with Hauxton, 476. The manor belongs to the Dean and Chapter of Ely. Newton Manor House and Newton Hall are chief residences. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the vicarage of Hauxton, in the diocese of Ely; joint gross value, £274 with residence, in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of Ely. The church is an ancient building of stone and clunch in the Early English and later styles; consists of nave, transepts, and chancel, with an embattled western tower; and contains an old hexagonal font.