Newton Blossomville
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Template:Infobox UK place Newton Blossomville is a village in the unitary authority area of the City of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England. It is a civil parish, sharing a joint parish council with Clifton Reynes.<ref>Parishes in Milton Keynes Template:Webarchive - Milton Keynes Council.</ref> At the 2011 census, the population of the parish was 329,<ref name=c2011 /> an increase of 17.5% on the 280 figure for 2001<ref>Population of the village (Page 22) Template:Webarchive Milton Keynes Council</ref>
It is located in the north of the Borough, about Template:Convert east of Olney, Template:Convert west of Bedford, and Template:Convert north-east of Central Milton Keynes, close to the Bucks/Beds border.
History
The village name 'Newton' is an Old English language word meaning 'new village' or 'new homestead'.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> It was recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 under the holdings of Clifton Reynes (Clystone) as not much was left of the original settlement. Called 'Neutone' when first named independently in 1175,Template:Sfnp it gained the affix 'Blossevill', referring to the family name of the lords of the manor in the 13th century.Template:Sfnp
In 1419, it appears as "Newenton Blosumvyll".<ref> The Court of Common Pleas; National Archives; ref: CP40/634; image seen at: http://aalt.law.uh.edu/H5/CP40no634/aCP40no634fronts/IMG_0771.htm (last entry, with county margin: Buk for Buckinghamshire) </ref>
Listed buildings and structures
The parish has one scheduled ancient monument,<ref>Template:NHLE</ref> one grade II* listed building,<ref>Template:NHLE</ref> and 14 at grade II.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Services
Today, the only service remaining in the village is the Newton Blossomville Church of England First School. The village post office has been closed for many years, as is common for other villages of this size. The nearest railway station, Template:Rws, was closed when the Bedford to Northampton Line was closed in the 1960s. For a brief time the new diesel engines were tested along the railway. Some of the line remains but much is unused and overgrown or incorporated into the adjacent fields. Although, a section is used as private access to Newton Lodge Farm in Spring Lane, Clifton Reynes, coming off Clifton Road, to the west of the remains of the Clifton Road railway bridge, where once a track with a railway crossing used to run to "Costerpits Farm" (now a residential barn conversion).
Notable former inhabitants
References
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External links
- Twenty-five inch historic mapping
- Template:Cite map (Cold Brayfield and north side of Newton Blossomville.)
- Template:Cite map (South side of Newton Blossomville, including railway line.)
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