The settlement of Newton le Willows is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Newton in Cheshire.

Other Settlements in Newton

Winwick

The Meaning of the Name

The name Newton le Willows is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word tūn, a farmstead or village, while the first element appears to represent the new. Taken together the name probably meant something close to ’the new farmstead’.

Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Newton le Willows.

Listed Buildings Near Newton le Willows

Historic England records 13 listed buildings within about a mile of Newton le Willows. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II*

Entrance Archway to Cancello - 0.88 km

Grade II

Newton Le Willows Station - 0.28 km
Church of St Peter - 0.34 km
Newton Viaduct to west of station - 0.35 km
Parish Stocks - 0.36 km
Newton Park Farmhouse - 0.51 km
Barn to East of Newton Park Farmhouse - 0.53 km
Huskisson Memorial on South Side of Railway, 60 Metres From Road - 0.92 km
158 and 160, High Street - 0.96 km
Fairbrothers Farmhouse - 1.03 km
United Reformed Chapel - 1.07 km
Memorial to North West of Burial Ground of United Reformed Chapel - 1.1 km
Dean School Cottage - 1.2 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Newton le Willows

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Newton le Willows:

Castle Hill motte and bailey and bowl barrow - 0.71 km

Newton le Willows Today

Today Newton le Willows lies within the administrative area of St Helens, and the settlement recorded a population of 24,642 at recent figures. Nine and a half centuries separate that figure from the small rural community the Domesday survey recorded here in 1086.

Read more about modern Newton-le-Willows on Wikipedia .