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{{Short description|Village in Derbyshire, England}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
[[Image:KingsNewtonHall.jpg|thumb|The Hall at Kings Newton in 1859<ref name=poem>[https://books.google.com/books?id=u88IAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP14&dq=king%27s+newton+trent+weston+cliff&ie=ISO-8859-1#PPA64-IA3,M1 The Trent, and other poems] By [[w:John Joseph Briggs|John Joseph Briggs]] pub. 1859</ref>]]
[[Image:KingsNewtonWell488990480 d9ac944856 o.jpg|thumb|Holy Well in Kings Newton]]
'''Kings Newton''' is a village in [[South Derbyshire]]. The population of the village is included in [[Melbourne, Derbyshire|Melbourne]].  The [[Holy well]] (pictured) was constructed around 1660, but has been refurbished at the end of the twentieth century.<ref name=spring>[http://people.bath.ac.uk/liskmj/living-spring/sourcearchive/fs4/fs4hu1.htm Living Springs journal. Accessed 29 January 2007]</ref>

==History==
Unlike many villages in [[Derbyshire]], Kings Newton is not mentioned in the [[Domesday book]] and is a "new town". Originally the hamlet was called Newton but the prefix of ''Kings'' was added to differentiate it from other ''Newtons'' in the surrounding counties.

After the successful campaign at the [[Battle of Sobraon]], [[Henry Hardinge]] was created Viscount Hardinge of [[Lahore]] and of King's Newton in [[Derbyshire]], with a pension of £3000 for three lives. Why this small village was chosen for his honour is unclear.

The hall illustrated was built in 1560 and was extensively damaged by fire in 1859.<ref>[http://www.derbyshireuk.net/kingsnewton.html 'Kings Newton village in South Derbyshire: Information and photos'] ''Derbyshire UK'', accessed 2009-08-16</ref> It was fully restored in 1910 by [[Cecil Paget]] and his first wife. The illustration is from a book of poetry by local naturalist, John Joseph Briggs, whose poem about the Trent was the title of his poetry book.

==Notable residents==
* [[Marjorie Bates]], 20th century artist was born here in 1883.
* [[John Joseph Briggs]], Naturalist lived here and published a History of [[Melbourne, Derbyshire|Melbourne]]<ref>John Joseph Briggs in the [[Dictionary of National Biography]] 1866</ref>
* [[Cecil Paget]], locomotive engineer and railway administrator, lived in the Hall 1910-1936<ref>'The gentry: the Paget family' [http://homepage.ntlworld.com/roger.beswick/remembering_sutton_bonington.htm ''Remembering Sutton Bonington''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090511164536/http://homepage.ntlworld.com/roger.beswick/remembering_sutton_bonington.htm |date=2009-05-11 }}, accessed 2009-08-16</ref>

==See also==
*[[Listed buildings in Melbourne, Derbyshire]]

==References==
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==External links==
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