NEWTON (WOOD), a parish in the hundred of WILLYBROOK, county of NORTHAMPTON, 4 miles (N.) from Oundle, containing 362 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the peculiar jurisdiction and patronage of the Prebendary of Nassington in the Cathedral Church of Lincoln, endowed with £400 royal bounty, and £200 parliamentary grant. The church is dedicated to St. Mary.