NEWTOWN-NEAR-NEWBURY, a village and a parish in the district of Newbury and county of Hants. The village stands on the river Enbourne at the boundary with Berks, 2 miles S by E of Newbury r. station; and has a post-office under Newbury. The parish comprises 475 acres. Real property, £741. Pop., 276. Houses, 62. The manor belongs to the Earl of Carnarvon. Newtown House is the chief residence. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the rectory of Burghclere, in the diocese of Winchester. The church was rebuilt in 1865; is in the early English style, of flint and Bathstone; and has an octagonal tower, painted glass windows, polished oak roof, and tesselated pavement. There are a Baptist chapel, and an endowed school with £10 a year.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))