NEWTON-upon-TRENT, a parish in the wapentake
of WELL, parts of LINDSEY, county of LINCOLN, 10
miles (W. N. W.) from Lincoln, containing 295 inhabitants.
The living is a discharged vicarage, inthe archdeaconry
of Stow, and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the
king's books at £4, endowed with £400 private benefaction,
£800 royal bounty, and £300 parliamentary
grant. Miss Stowe and others were patrons in 1807.
The church is dedicated to St. Peter. There is a place
of worship for Wesleyan Methodists.