NEWNTON (Long), a village and a parish in the district of Tetbury and county of Wilts. The village stands near Akeman-street, and near the boundary with Gloucestershire, 1½ mile E of Tetbury, and 6½ S W by W of Tetbury-road r. station; was known to the Saxons as Newantune; and has a post-office under Tetbury. The parish comprises 2, 289 acres. Real property, with Ashley, £4, 581. Rated property of L.N. alone, £2, 663. Pop., 277. Houses, 63. The property belongs to the Right Hon. T.H.S.S. Estcourt. A right of commonwas given by King Athelstan. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Value, £370. Patron, the Right Hon. T.H.S.S. Estcourt. The church is modern, but retains the tower of a previous edifice. There are a village school, and charities £16.

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