Newton is a village on the

Wirral Peninsula The Wirral Peninsula (), known locally as the Wirral, is a peninsula in North West England. The roughly rectangular peninsula is about long and wide, and is bounded by the Dee Estuary to the west, the Mersey Estuary to the east, and Liverpo ...

, in the

Metropolitan Borough of Wirral The Metropolitan Borough of Wirral is a metropolitan borough of Merseyside, in North West England. It has a population of (), and encompasses of the northern part of the Wirral Peninsula. Major settlements include Birkenhead, Wallasey, Bebingt ...

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, England. It is a part of the suburban town of

West Kirby West Kirby () is a coastal town in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, Merseyside, England. In the north west of the Wirral Peninsula and at the mouth of the River Dee, the town is contiguous with Hoylake. It lies within the historic county bo ...

, the local government ward of West Kirby and Thurstaston and the parliamentary constituency of

Wirral West Wirral West is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament by Matthew Patrick of the Labour Party since 2024. Constituency profile The constituency is one of four covering the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral. It in ...

. Contiguous with Newton is the suburb of

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to the west. The

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Larton Larton is a hamlet near the town of West Kirby, on the Wirral Peninsula, in Merseyside, England. Administratively it is part of the local government ward of Greasby, Frankby and Irby in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral and is within the parl ...

is to the east. Newton consists of a village hall, post office, public house and a general store. The local park, aptly named Newton Park, has a

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, outdoor

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and a playground for children. Wirral Council also has several allotments in Newton that are provided for residents to grow their own vegetables and plants.

History

The name of the village means "new settlement or farmstead" from the

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words ''nīwe'' and ''tūn''. Newton was previously combined with the nearby hamlet of

as Newton cum Larton, part of West Kirby

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of the

Wirral Hundred The Hundred of Wirral is the ancient administrative area for the Wirral Peninsula. Its name is believed to have originated from the ''Hundred of Wilaveston'', the historic name for Willaston, Cheshire West, Willaston, which was an important asse ...

, in the county of

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. Its population was 49 in 1801 and 44 in 1851. A

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from 1866, it was abolished in 1889 and subsumed into the nearby civil parish of

. Between 1894 and 1933 Newton was part of

Wirral Rural District Wirral Rural District was a rural district on the Wirral Peninsula in Cheshire, England from 1894 to 1933. It was created under the Local Government Act 1894 from the Wirral Rural Sanitary District. From the beginning of the twentieth centu ...

, then

Hoylake Urban District Hoylake () is a seaside town in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, Merseyside, England. It is at the north west of the Wirral Peninsula, near West Kirby and where the River Dee meets the Irish Sea. At the 2021 census, the built up area had ...

until 1974.

Geography

Two branches of

Newton Brook Newton Brook is a tributary of Greasby Brook, in Wirral, Merseyside. The brook starts as two branches, one of which is in the same system of lowland field drainage, south of Hoylake, as the Birket The Birket is a tributary of the River M ...

border the north and the east of Newton. The brook is a tributary of

Greasby Brook Greasby Brook is a tributary of Arrowe Brook, in Wirral, Merseyside. The brook starts near to Dawlish Road in Thurstaston. The brook flows through Thurstaston Common and around the western side of Greasby, before converging, firstly, with ...

. The two branches of Newton Brook merge near to

Transport

Road

The B5139 Frankby Road passes through Newton. This road has junctions with the B5192 Saughall Massie Road and the A540 Column Road, towards

Rail

West Kirby railway station West Kirby railway station serves the town of West Kirby, in Merseyside, England. It is the terminus of the West Kirby branch line, one of the two branches of the Wirral Line on the Merseyrail network. There is a central island platform betwee ...

is approximately to the west. This station is on the Wirral line of the

Merseyrail Merseyrail is a commuter rail network which serves Merseyside and adjacent areas of Cheshire and Lancashire in the North West England, North West of England. Merseyrail serves 69 Railway station, stations, 67 of which it manages, across two lin ...

network, with frequent services to

Liverpool Liverpool is a port City status in the United Kingdom, city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. It is situated on the eastern side of the River Mersey, Mersey Estuary, near the Irish Sea, north-west of London. With a population ...

Education

The locality is served by Hilbre High School,

Calday Grange Grammar School Calday Grange Grammar School, initialised as CGGS and commonly known as Calday, is a non-denominational, Selective school#United Kingdom, selective Single-sex education, boys' Grammar schools in the United Kingdom, grammar school situated on Ca ...

and West Kirby Grammar School at secondary education level.

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