NEWTON, a township, joint with Scales, in the parish of KIRKHAM, hundred of AMOUNDERNESS, county palatine of LANCASTER, 2 miles (S. E. by E.) from Kirkhani, containing, with Scales, 380 inhabitants. The Bluecoat school here was founded and liberally endowed, in 1707, by John Hornby; and James Boys, in 1809, bequeathed £800 in furtherance of this charity, the annual iacome of which now amounts to £ 670, and the number of scholars averages about forty, viz., twenty-seven boys and thirteen girls, who are clothed, boarded, and educated.