Newton Solney
| Newton Solney | |
| Derbyshire | |
|---|---|
 St Mary the Virgin's Church | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SK282256 |
| Location: | 52°49’41"N, 1°34’55"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 659 (2011) |
| Post town: | Burton on Trent |
| Postcode: | DE15 |
| Dialling code: | 01283 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | South Derbyshire |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Burton |
Newton Solney is a small village and parish in southern Derbyshire, located about two miles from the Staffordshire border, near to Burton upon Trent. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 Census was 659.[1] Its nearest neighbour is Repton, situated about two miles to the north-east.
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. 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)"[2] 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 12 acres of meadow, woodland pasture two leagues long and three furlongs broad. TRE[3] as now worth one hundred shillings.[4]
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. 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. The Main Road was declared a conservation area in 1978.
References
- ↑ "Civil parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. =Office for National Statistics. http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11126965&c=Newton+Solney&d=16&e=62&g=6414963&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1459254514578&enc=1. Retrieved 29 March 2016.
- ↑ The King had a number of manors in Derbyshire. Besides Bretby and Newton Solney he had a list that included Repton, Milton, Wirksworth, Weston-on-Trent, Walton-on-Trent and Ashbourne.
- ↑ TRE in Latin is Tempore Regis Edwardi. This means in the time of King Edward before the Battle of Hastings.
- ↑ Domesday Book: A Complete Translation. London: Penguin, 2003. ISBN 0-14-143994-7 p.742
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