NEWTON-on-the-MOOR, a township in the parish of SHILBOTTLE, eastern division of COQUETDALE ward, county of NORTHUMBERLAND, 5 miles (S. by W.) from Almvick, containing 244 inhabitants. A considerable quantity of limestone is obtained here for burning. There is a powerful chalybeate spring near the village; and in the neighbourhood are vestiges of an ancient fortification. Frances and Jane Strother, about 1770, left £300, the interest of which is applied to the education of poor children.