North Newnton

Coordinates: 51°18′36″N 1°48′43″W / 51.310°N 1.812°W / 51.310; -1.812

North Newnton
North Newnton  North Newnton shown within Wiltshire
Population	415 (2001 census)[1]
OS grid reference	SU131576
Parish	North Newnton
Unitary authority	Wiltshire
Ceremonial county	Wiltshire
Region	South West
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	PEWSEY
Postcode district	SN9
Dialling code	01672
Police	Wiltshire
Fire	Wiltshire
Ambulance	Great Western
EU Parliament	South West England
UK Parliament	Devizes
List of places: UK • England • Wiltshire

North Newnton is a civil parish in Wiltshire, England, on the River Avon. The parish includes the settlements of Hilcott and Rainscombe.

History

The parish was described as follows in The National Gazetteer (1868):

NORTH NEWNTON, a parish and township in the hundred of Swanborough, county of Wilts, 8 miles S.E. of Devizes, and 4 S.W. of Pewsey. The village, which is small, is situated on the river Avon. The parish contains the tythings of Hilcott and Rainscombe, with Overton Heath. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol, value £176. The church, dedicated to St. James, is an ancient structure, with a square tower. The Primitive Methodists have a chapel."^[2]

Governance

All significant local government services are provided by the Wiltshire Council unitary authority, with its headquarters in Trowbridge, and the parish is represented there by Brigadier Robert Hall. In Parliament it is represented by the Member for the Devizes constituency, Claire Perry.

Notes

1. ^ "Area selected: North Newnton". Neighbourhood Statistics: Full Dataset View. Office for National Statistics. http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadTableView.do?a=3&b=800569&c=North+Newnton&d=16&e=15&g=497414&i=1001x1003x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1313889813297&enc=1&dsFamilyId=779. Retrieved 20 August 2012. 
2. ^ NORTH NEWNTON, Wiltshire at genuki.org.uk, accessed 20 August 2011

Further reading

• Crittall, Elizabeth (ed.); Baggs, A. P.; Crowley, D. A.; Pugh, Ralph B.; Tomlinson, Margaret (1975). Victoria County History: A History of the County of Wiltshire, Volume 10: Swanborough hundred; the borough of Devizes. 
• Pevsner, Nikolaus; Cherry, Bridget (revision) (1975). The Buildings of England: Wiltshire. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. ISBN 0 14 0710.26 4. 

See also

• List of places in Wiltshire
• List of civil parishes in England