NEWNHAM (KING'S), a parish in the Rugby division of the hundred of KNIGHTLOW, county of WARWICK, 4 miles (N. W. by Mr.) from Rugby, containing 134 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, united to the rectory of Church-Lawford, in the archdeaconry of Coventry, and diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, rated in the king's books at £ 5. The Oxford canal crosses the north-eastern angle of the parish; and on the bank of the river Avon is a once celebrated bath, to which the water is conveyed from a chalybeate spring, about a mile distant; it is impregnated with alum, and said to be efficacious in scorbutic complaints, and in healing fresh wounds.