NEWTON-UPON-TRENT, a village and a parish in Gainsborough district, Lincoln. The village stands near the river Trent at the boundary with Notts, 3¼ miles S of Torksey r. station, and 10 S by E of Gainsborough; and has a post-office under Newark. The parish comprises 1, 390 acres. Real property, £3, 328. Pop., 325. Houses, 79. The property is divided among a few. Dunham bridge, across the Trent here, was erected in 1832, at a cost of £17,000; and is a cast-iron structure offour arches, resting on stone piers, and each 118 feet in span. Spring tides reach the bridge, with a rise of 4feet; and there are wharves. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £222.* Patrons, Lord and Lady T. Hay. The church has undergone consider-able repair, and has a lofty tower.

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