NEWTON (OLD), a parish in the hundred of STOW, county of SUFFOLK, 3 miles (N. by E.) from Stow-Market, containing, with the hamlet of Dagworth, 577 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Sudbury, and diocese of Norwich, rated in the king's books at £7. 15. 5., endowed with £600 private benefaction, and £900 parliamentary grant. Mrs.Torless was patroness in 1823. The church is dedicated to St. Mary.