Newton Solney is a small village and
civil parish
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in
South Derbyshire
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,
England
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, located about two miles (3 km) from the
East Staffordshire border, near to
Burton upon Trent
Burton upon Trent, also known as Burton-on-Trent or simply Burton, is a market town in the borough of East Staffordshire in the county of Staffordshire, England, close to the border with Derbyshire. In 2011, it had a population of 72,299. The d ...
. 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, which could be forded here and the
Dove
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. 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
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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
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'' in 1086. Under the title of "The land of the
King
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*In the context of prehistory, antiquity and contemporary indigenous peoples, the ...
(in Derbyshire)" it said:
In Newton Solney and Bretby 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 with five ploughs. There are of meadow, woodland pasture two leagues long and three furlongs broad. TRE[TRE in ]Latin
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is Tempore Regis Edwardi. This means in the time of King Edward King Edward may refer to:
Monarchs of England and the United Kingdom
* Edward the Elder (–924)
* Edward the Martyr (–978)
* Edward the Confessor (–1066)
* Edward I of England (1239–1307)
* Edward II of England (1284–1327)
* Edward III o ...
before the Battle of Hastings
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. as now worth one hundred shillings.[''Domesday Book: A Complete Translation''. London: Penguin, 2003. p.742]
The village was passed over to
Norman de Solney some time after 1086. In 1205 Alured de Solennaia, a Norman knight, inherited Newton. By about 1300 it became known as Newton Solney.
Norman knights were passionately fond of hunting and the de Solneys carved a hunting park out of the extensive woodland. The first church was built in the twelfth century. There would also have been a manor house, probably somewhere near the present Newton Park Hotel. The lord of the manor would have had a mill and fishing rights on the river and a tithe barn is recorded in 1528. With the death of John, the last male de Solney in 1390, the manor passed through several important local families and was finally bought by a local attorney, Abraham Hoskins who built the house, now the hotel.
Modern development
The village slowly grew to a population of 181 in 1801 and now has about 800, the increase mainly resulting from a new housing development off Blacksmith's Lane. In 1894, part of the parish of
Winshill was added to Newton Solney. Local landowners the Every family rebuilt the former Rock Tower on Church Lane as Rock House, a Victorian villa overlooking the river Trent. The Main Road was declared a conservation area in 1978.
The village has a school, two pubs and a hotel. The Village Hall was built in 1932
to the designs of the architect
Arthur Eaton and Son.
See also
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Listed buildings in Newton Solney
Newton Solney is a civil parish in the South Derbyshire district of Derbyshire, England. The parish contains 19 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, two are listed at Grade II*, the midd ...
References
External links
DerbyPhotos.co.uk
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Villages in Derbyshire
South Derbyshire District