Kings Newton is a village in

South Derbyshire South Derbyshire is a local government district in Derbyshire, England. The population of the local authority at the 2011 Census was 94,611. It contains a third of the National Forest, and the council offices are in Swadlincote. The district a ...

. The population of the village is included in

Melbourne Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a met ...

. The

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(pictured) was constructed around 1660, but has been refurbished at the end of the twentieth century.Living Springs journal. Accessed 29 January 2007
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History

Unlike many villages in

Derbyshire Derbyshire ( ) is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands, England. It includes much of the Peak District National Park, the southern end of the Pennine range of hills and part of the National Forest. It borders Greater Manchester to the nor ...

, Kings Newton is not mentioned in the

Domesday book Domesday Book () – the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book" – is a manuscript record of the "Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William I, known as William the Conqueror. The manusc ...

and is a "new town". Originally the hamlet was called Newton but the prefix of ''Kings'' was added to differentiate it from other ''Newtons'' in the surrounding counties. After the successful campaign at the

Battle of Sobraon The Battle of Sobraon was fought on 10 February 1846, between the forces of the East India Company and the Sikh Khalsa Army, the army of the Sikh Empire of the Punjab. The Sikhs were completely defeated, making this the decisive battle of the F ...

Henry Hardinge Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge, (30 March 1785 – 24 September 1856) was a British Army officer and politician. After serving in the Peninsular War and the Waterloo Campaign he became Secretary at War in Wellington's ministry. After ...

was created Viscount Hardinge of

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and of King's Newton in

, with a pension of £3000 for three lives. Why this small village was chosen for his honour is unclear. The hall illustrated was built in 1560 and was extensively damaged by fire in 1859. It was fully restored in 1910 by

Cecil Paget Sir Cecil Walter Paget (19 October 1874 – 9 December 1936),''Who was who'', 1941 was an English locomotive engineer and railway administrator. Cecil Paget was the son of Sir Ernest Paget, George Ernest Paget, Chairman of the Midland Railway ...

and his first wife. The illustration is from a book of poetry by local naturalist, John Joseph Briggs, whose poem about the Trent was the title of his poetry book.

Notable residents

Marjorie Bates Marjorie Christine Bates R.A. (1882–1962) was born in Kings Newton, near Melbourne, Derbyshire. She was a painter who exhibited at the Royal Academy''Royal Academy exhibitors, 1905-70: a dictionary of artists and their work in the Summer Exhi ...

, 20th century artist was born here in 1883. *

John Joseph Briggs John Joseph Briggs (6 March 1819 – 23 March 1876), naturalist and topographer, was born in the village of Kings Newton (or King's Newton), Derbyshire on 6 March 1819. His father, John Briggs, who married his cousin, Mary Briggs, was born and re ...

, Naturalist lived here and published a History of

, locomotive engineer and railway administrator, lived in the Hall 1910-1936'The gentry: the Paget family
''Remembering Sutton Bonington''
, accessed 2009-08-16

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