NEWTON (NORTH), a parish in the hundred of
SWANBOROUGH, county of WILTS, 3 miles (S. W.
by W.) from Pewsey, containing, with the tything of
Hilcott, 288 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage,
in the archdeaconry of Wilts, and diocese of Salisbury,
rated in the king's books at £7. 1. 3., and in the patronage
of the Prebendary of Beaminster-Secunda in
the Cathedral Church of Salisbury. The church is dedicated
to St. James.