Newton by Toft

The Caistor Library is an excellent resource with a Local History section and a Family History section.

Alternatively, you can use the nearby Market Rasen Library as a resource, as well.

• The parish was in the Market Rasen sub-district of the Caistor Registration District.
   
• Check our Census Resource page for county-wide resources.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Michael and was built in the Norman period.
   
• The church was rebuilt in 1860.
   
• The church seats only about 80.
   
• A photograph of Saint Michael's Church is at the Wendy PARKINSON English Church Photographs site.
   
• Richard CROFT has a photograph of St. Michael's Church on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2006.
   
• Here is a photograph of St. Michael's Church, taken by Ron COLE (who retains the copyright):
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1592.
   
• The Lincolnshire FHS has published several marriage indexes and a burial index for the Westwold Deanery to make your search easier.
   
• The Wesleyan Methodists built a chapel here before 1900.
   
• For information and assistance in researching these chapels, see our non-conformist religions page.
   
• Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.

• The parish was in the Market Rasen sub-district of the Caistor Registration District.
   
• Check our Civil Registration page for sources and background on Civil Registration which began in July, 1837.

Newton-by-Toft is a village and a parish, 4 miles west of Market Rasen and about 11 miles northeast of the City of Lincoln. The parish covers 1,009 acres. Faldingworth parish lies to the south.

If you are planning a visit:

• The Toft Newton Reservoir lies due west of the village. Richard CROFT has a photograph of the Toft Newton Reservoir on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2006.
   
• j. HANNAM-BRIGGS has a photograph of the Village Sign on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2013 by Julain GUFFOGG.
    You could offer your artistic talent and marketting skills to give them a more attractive sign.
   
• See our touring page for visitor services.

• Geograph
• Flickr

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Newton by Toft to another place.

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TF050874 (Lat/Lon: 53.373037, -0.42323), Newton by Toft which are provided by:

• OpenStreetMap
• Google Maps
• StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
• Bing (was Multimap)
• Old Maps Online
• National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
• Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
• English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
• Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
• GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)

• All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.

• The name Newton is a very common name, coming from the Old English niwe+tun, or "new estate or village".
  A. D. Mills, "A Dictionary of English Place-Names," Oxford University Press, 1991.

• This place was an ancient parish in Lincoln county and it became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• The parish was in the ancient Walshcroft Wapentake in the West Lindsey district in the parts of Lindsey in the 19th century.
   
• Kelly's 1913 Directory of Lincolnshire places the parish, perhaps erroneously, in the East Lindsey district of the county.
   
• Today's district governance is provided by the West Lindsey District Council.

• Bastardy cases would be heard on the 1st Tuesday each month at the Market Rasen petty session hearings.
   
• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, this parish became part of the Caistor Poor Law Union.

Year	Inhabitants
1801	51
1831	82
1841	85
1851	71
1871	95
1891	68
1911	68

• A Public Elementary School was built here in 1874 to hold up to 50 children. Average attendance in 1899 was 12.
   
• Ian S. has a photograph of the Old School House on Geo-graph, taken in February, 2014.
   
• For more on researching school records, see our Schools Research page.