Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for NEWTON-TONEY

NEWTON-TONEY, a village and a parish in Amesbury district, Wilts. The village stands on an affluent of the river Avon, 1¼ mile E of the boundary with Hants, 3½ S W of Grately r. station, and 4 E by N of Amesbury; and has a post-office under Salisbury. The parish comprises 2, 365 acres. Real property, with Allington and Cholderton, £4, 637. Rated property of N. T. alone, £2, 184. Pop., 351. Houses, 73. The property is divided among a few. The manor, with Wilbury House, belongs to Sir A. Malet, Bart. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £441.* Patron, Queen's College, Cambridge. The church is modern. There is a national school.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village and a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Newton Toney AP/CP       Amesbury RegD/PLU       Wiltshire AncC
Place: Newton Toney

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