| Country: | England | ||||||
| Coordinates: | 52.154°N -0.649°W | ||||||
| Population: | 329 | ||||||
| Population Ref: | (2011 Census) | ||||||
| Official Name: | Newton Blossomville | ||||||
| Civil Parish: | Newton Blossomville | ||||||
| Unitary England: | Milton Keynes | ||||||
| Lieutenancy England: | Buckinghamshire | ||||||
| Region: | South East England | ||||||
| Constituency Westminster: | Milton Keynes North | ||||||
| Post Town: | BEDFORD | ||||||
| Postcode District: | MK43 | ||||||
| Postcode Area: | MK | ||||||
| Dial Code: | 01234 | ||||||
| Os Grid Reference: | SP925515 | ||||||
| Static Image: | Thatched cottages, Newton Blossomville - geograph.org.uk - 812112.jpg | ||||||
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Newton Blossomville is a village in the unitary authority area of the City of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England. It is a civil parish, sharing a joint parish council with Clifton Reynes.[1] At the 2011 census, the population of the parish was 329, an increase of 17.5% on the 280 figure for 2001[2]
It is located in the north of the Borough, about east of Olney, west of Bedford, and north-east of Central Milton Keynes, close to the Bucks/Beds border.
The village name 'Newton' is an Old English language word meaning 'new village' or 'new homestead'.[3] It was recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 under the holdings of Clifton Reynes (Clystone) as not much was left of the original settlement. Called 'Neutone' when first named independently in 1175, it gained the affix 'Blossevill', referring to the family name of the lords of the manor in the 13th century.
In 1419, it appears as "Newenton Blosumvyll".[4]
The parish has one scheduled ancient monument, one grade II* listed building, and 14 at grade II.[5]
Today, the main services remaining in the village are the Newton Blossomville Church of England 1st School and the Old Mill Burnt Down public house (previously The Old Mill). The village post office has been closed for many years, as is common for other villages of this size. There was a 'Train Stop', with a signal on the line, adjacent to a small field & brook, accessed by a track at the end of Brook Lane. The nearest railway station, in Turvey, was closed when the Bedford to Northampton Line was closed in the 1960s because of Beeching. For a brief time the new diesel engines were tested along the railway. Some of the line remains but much is unused and overgrown or incorporated into the adjacent fields. Although, a section is used as private access to Newton Lodge Farm in Spring Lane, Clifton Reynes, coming off Clifton Road, to the west of the remains of the Clifton Road railway bridge, where once a track with a railway crossing used to run to "Costerpits Farm" (now a residential barn conversion).