Newton Solney is a small village and
civil parish in
South Derbyshire,
England, located about two miles (3 km) from the
East Staffordshire border, near to
Burton upon Trent. The population of the civil parish as of the 2011 census was 659. Its nearest neighbour is
Repton, situated about two miles (3 km) to the northeast.
History
When the Anglian invaders came up the Trent in the sixth century, they would have found Newton Solney a very attractive place, sitting at the confluence of two rivers, the
Trent
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, which could be forded here and the
Dove. They called it ''Niwantune'' meaning the new farm and from this tiny nucleus, the village slowly grew. When the Vikings, in their turn, raided
Mercia and destroyed the Saxon monastery at
Repton (873-4) they may also have sacked and occupied Newton Solney.
This manor was in the ''
Domesday Book'' in 1086. Under the title of "The land of the
King (in Derbyshire)" it said:
In Newton Solney and Bretby
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Ælfgar had seven carucates of land to the geld. There is land for six ploughs. There the king has one plough and nineteen villans and one bordar
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with five ploughs. There are of meadow, woodland pasture two leagues long and three furlongs broad. TRE[TRE in ]