NEWTON-NOTTAGE, a parish, comprising the hamlets of Newton and Nottage, in the union of BRIDGEND-AND-COWBRIDGE, hundred of NEWCASTLE, county of GLAMORGAN, SOUTH WALES, 44 miles (W. s. W.) from Bridgend; and containing 792 inhabitants. The parish is situated on the shore of the Bristol Channel, and comprises a tract of which a considerable portion is uninclosed and uncultivated. The sea has encroached greatly on the shore; and much of the land of the parish, which within the recol. lection of persons still living formed excellent pasturage for sheep, is now covered with sand. A few persons resort to the place for the benefit of sea-bathing. Iron-stone is procured to a limited extent on Newton Down, and both lead-ore and manganese have been found in the white limestone of the parish; and a facility of conveyance and of communication with the limestone and freestone quarries, and with the other mines in the vicinity, is afforded by the Dyfryn Llynvi and Porthcawl railway. This railway commences at the little harbour of Porthcawl, in the parish, which has been greatly improved by the construction of a breakwater extending several yards into the sea, and proceeds by Nottage village to North and South C.ornelly, and Pyle, whence it pursues an easterly course to the iron-works at Cevn Cribwr, where it is joined by the Bridgend railway, and, taking a northerly direction in a line parallel with the western bank of the river Llynvi, passes the village of Llangonoyd, and, crossing the river at Typhylly Chwyth, terminates at Dyfryn Llynvi, extending in its whole course a distance of seventeen miles. From Newton Down may be obtained a fine view of Penllyne Castle, near Cowbridge, to the east; and . to the west over Swansea bay, the whitewashed habitations about Oystermouth, and the country adjacent to Swansea. The living is a rectory, rated in the king's books at £17. 4. 7., and in the patronage of the Proprietors of the Manor; present net income, £375. The church, didicated to St. John the Baptist, is an ancient and venerable structure, displaying portions in the successive styles of English architecture, with a massive square tower; the number of sittings has been recently enlarged by the erection of a gallery; in which are forty free; the pulpit appears to have been formed out of one solid stone, and is rudely carved with a representation of the scourging of our Saviour. There are places of worship for Baptists and Calvinistic Methodists. A day school affords instruction to from 40 to 50 children, at the expense of their parents; and a National school, in which are about 45 children daily and 50 on Sundays, is supported partly by the bounty of a lady, and partly by payments from the parents. No public charities now exist, in consequence of a bequest of £50 by Mary Lougher, in 1731, and a similar one of £10 by Alexander Pryce or Rees, prior to 1786, having been misapplied, and partly to his own use, by one of the parish officers. Some traces of the Julia Strata Maritima may be discerned on Newton Down, a little to the left of the turnpike-road, in its course towards Nidum (Neath). Near the church is a curious well, noticed by Camden as ebbing and flowing in opposition to the tide, being full at low water and empty at high water: various conjectures have been formed to account for this phenomenon, which may be satisfactorily explained on the principle of a natural syphon.