NEWNTON (LONG), a parish in the hundred of MALMESBURY, county of WILTS, 3 miles (N.N.W.) from Malmesbury, containing 306 inhabitants. The living is a discharged rectory, in the archdeaconry of Wilts, and diocese of Salisbury, rated in the king's books at £8. 5. Thomas Estcourt, Esq. was patron in 1808. The church is dedicated to the Holy Trinity. Elizabeth Hodges, in 1723, and Amy Haddon, subsequently, bequeathed each a trifling rent-charge towards the support of a school.