NEWNHAM-MURREN, a parish, with a village, in the district of Wallingford and county of Oxford; on the river Thames, under the Chiltern hills, 1 mile S S E of Wallingford r. station. Post-town, Wallingford. Acres, 1,830. Real property, £2, 670. Pop., 231. Houses, 47. The manor belongs to Hedges, Esq, The living is a vicarage, annexed to the vicarage of North Stoke, in the diocese of Oxford. The church is ancient, and has been entirely restored. A section of the parish, with a pop. of 58, is included in Stoke-Row chapelry. Charities, £9.

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