Newton on the Moor is a village and former

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority ...

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, England. It is located south of

Alnwick Alnwick ( ) is a market town in Northumberland, England, of which it is the traditional county town. The population at the 2011 Census was 8,116. The town is on the south bank of the River Aln, south of Berwick-upon-Tweed and the Scottish bor ...

, on the old route of the

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although the village has now been bypassed just to the east. The village is now in the

of Newton on the Moor and Swarland, which also includes the village of

Swarland Swarland is a small modern village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Newton-on-the-Moor and Swarland, in the county of Northumberland, England, situated about south of the market town of Alnwick and north of the city of Newcastl ...

, south-west of Newton on the Moor. The population of Newton on the Moor and Swarland parish in 2001 was 822, increasing to 905 at the 2011 Census. The village is a

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. A settlement existed at Newton on the Moor in the late 13th century. Newton Hall is a grade II listed building built for Samuel Cook on the site of an earlier house in 1772.

Governance

Newton-on-the-Moor was formerly a

township A township is a kind of human settlement or administrative subdivision, with its meaning varying in different countries. Although the term is occasionally associated with an urban area, that tends to be an exception to the rule. In Australia, Ca ...

Shilbottle Shilbottle is a village in Northumberland, north-east England, south-east of Alnwick, and from the coast at Alnmouth, close to the A1 road (Great Britain), A1. History Coal mining began in the district around 1728; by the end of the 18th cent ...

parish, in 1866 Newton on the Moor became a civil parish in its own right, on 1 April 1955 Greens and Glantlees, Hazon and Hartlaw and

parishes were merged with Newton on the Moor, on 15 December 1987 the parish was renamed "Newton on the Moor and Swarland". In 1951 the parish (prior to the merge) had a population of 140.

References

External links

The Swarland Chronicles: Independent Online Magazine
Villages in Northumberland Former civil parishes in Northumberland {{Northumberland-geo-stub