Long Newnton, Wiltshire

Description
Newnton, Long, a village and a parish in Wiltshire, in the NW parliamentary division, in Malmesbury county court and Highway district, and in Tetbury union. The village is on the ancient Fosse Way, and near the boundary with Gloucestershire, 1 1/4 mile E of Tetbury station on the G.W.R. It has a post office under Tetbury; money order and telegraph office, Tetbury. Acreage of parish, 2289 ; population, 323. There is a parish council consisting of seven members and a chairman. A right of common is said to have been given by King Athelstan. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; net value, £270 with residence. The church of the Holy Trinity is Early English, but has been several times restored. There is a cottage hospital.