Cold Newton

Cold Newton
District	Harborough
Shire county	Leicestershire
Region	East Midlands
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	LEICESTER
Postcode district	LE
Dialling code	0116
Police	Leicestershire
Fire	Leicestershire
Ambulance	East Midlands
EU Parliament	East Midlands
UK Parliament	Rutland & Melton
List of places: UK • England • Leicestershire

Cold Newton is a small hamlet and civil parish in the Harborough district of Leicestershire. It is situated about two miles from Tilton on the Hill and two miles north of Billesdon. Some 700 feet (210 m) above sea level, it overlooks the Wreake valley. For administrative purposes the village is linked with Lowesby parish. It has no church, public house or shop. A village green was created in 1977 to mark Queen Elizabeth II's Silver Jubilee on land gifted to the parish by the Quenby estate.

Newton, spelt Niwetone is recorded in the Domesday Book. The name later changed to Newton Burdett when Hugo de Burdet became Lord of the Manor. The medieval village of Cold Newton is now deserted. Ridges and hollows in fields mark where the village stood (at grid reference SK715066) and the site is a scheduled monument.

The estates of Loseby and Quenby meet at Cold Newton.^[1]

References

1. ^ The Leicestershire and Rutland Village Book: Leicestershire and Rutland Federation of Women's Institutes 1989^{[page needed]}

External links

• Ordnance Survey Map of Cold Newton
• Photographs of Cold Newton

Coordinates: 52°39′00″N 0°56′15″W / 52.65°N 0.9375°W / 52.65; -0.9375