NEWNTON (LONG), a parish in the hundred of
MALMESBURY, county of WILTS, 3 miles (N.N.W.)
from Malmesbury, containing 306 inhabitants. The
living is a discharged rectory, in the archdeaconry of
Wilts, and diocese of Salisbury, rated in the Icing's
books at £8, 5. Thomas Estcourt, Esq. was patron in
1808. The church is dedicated to the Holy Trinity.
Elizabeth Hodges, in 1723, and Amy Haddon, subsequently,
bequeathed each a trifling rent-charge towards
the support of a school.