NEWTON is a township and ecclesiastical district in the parish of Clodock, situated on Eskley brook, about 12 miles N. of Abergavenny, 12 W.S.W. of Hereford, 10 S.E. of Hay, and 5 N.W. of Pontrilas station on the West Midland section of the Great Western railway. It is in Ewyas Lacy hundred, Dore union and petty sessional division, Longtown polling district, and Hereford county court district. The township maintains its own poor, and appoints its surveyors and other parochial authorities. The population in 1861 was 263; in 1871, 248; inhabited houses, 49; families or separate occupiers, 50; area of ecclesiastical district, 1,680 acres; annual rateable value, £1,209. The Marquess of Abergavenny is lord of the manor of Ewyas Lacy. Newton is in the diocese and archdeaconry of Hereford and rural deanery of Weobley; living, a perpetual curacy; value, £80; patron, the Vicar of Clodock (Rev. Charles Proberts, of Bacton); vicar, Rev. George Vaux Collison, B.A., of St. David's College, Lampeter, who was instituted in 1875, and is also chaplain to Dore union, and resides at Bacton rectory. The church (St. John's) is a plain stone edifice erected in 1844 at a cost of about £700, raised chiefly through the exertions of the late Mr. John Powell, a farmer, who resided in the township. The church was restored in 1869 at a cost of £127, and some slight alterations have been made since at a cost of £15; it has nave, porch, font, belfry, and two bells. The seats are all free and unappropriated. The register begins with the year 1848, the date of the formation of the ecclesiastical district. Newton is included in the Longtown district school board. New schools to accommodate 96 children are about to be erected from the designs of Messrs. Haddon Brothers, of Hereford and Malvern. The Primitive Methodists have a chapel here.