Old Newton, Suffolk

Description
Newton, Old, a village and a parish in Suffolk. The village stands 3 miles NNE of Stowmarket, and 1 mile E from Haughley Junction station on the G.E.R., and has a post office under Stowmarket; money order and telegraph office, Haughley. The parish includes the larger portion of the hamlet of Dagworth, 1 1/2 mile SW of the village, and comprises 2372 acres; population, 672. The manor of Old Newton belongs to the Pretyman family. Dagworth Hall was the seat of Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury, who was executed in the time of Henry VIII., figures picturesquely at the village, and is now a farmhouse. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £113 with residence. The church is an ancient building of flint in the Tudor style, consisting of chancel, vestry, nave, S porch, and a square western embattled tower. There is also a Primitive Methodist chapel, and between 4 and 5 acres of town land.