NEWTON, a parish in the hundred of THINGOE, county of SUFFOLK, 2 miles (S.S.E.) from Bury- St. Edmund's, containing 171 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Sudbury, and diocese of Norwich, rated in the king's books at £5.19.4. Sir Charles Davers, Bart, was patron in 1802. The church is dedicated to St. Peter.