Newton (toponym)
Newton is a common English-speaking locality name (toponym).
Word origin
Newton as a settlement name is new town in today's English , and means 'new city', the term can be found in Old English neowa do , which can be seen before the 7th century: the places Newton are mostly older than the places Newtown. The ending -ton generally means 'place' and is very common.
The place name is therefore common in the entire English-speaking and British-colonized area, there are said to be around 80 settlements with this name in the British Isles alone. Variants are Naunton , Newington , Newnton , Niton , Nyton , all in southern England.
The name of the settlement is also richly creative as a name of origin , there are around 100,000 people of the name worldwide.
- See: Newton (family name)
Occasionally, but especially in the case of other geographical objects, there is mostly an appreciation for the British naturalist Sir Isaac Newton (1643–1727) - whose surname is also derived as a name of origin from a town (Newtons of Woolsthorpe Manor) .
variants
Great Britain
England
- Newton (Cheshire)
- Newton (Dorset)
- Newton (East Cambridgeshire)
- Newton (Fenland)
- Newton (Lancashire)
- Newton (North Yorkshire)
- Newton (Nottinghamshire)
- Newton (Suffolk)
- Newton (Swansea)
- Newton (Warwickshire)
- Archdeacon Newton, County Durham
- Hardhorn with Newton (Lancashire)
- Newton Abbot (Devonian)
- Newton Aycliffe, County Durham
- Newton Blossomville (Buckinghamshire)
- Newton-le-Willows (Lancashire)
- Newton Bromswold (Northamptonshire)
- Newton-by-the-Sea (Northumberland)
- Newton Harcourt (Leicestershire)
- Newton-in-Bowland, Lancashire
- Newton-in-Furness (Cumbria)
- Newton-le-Willows (Merseyside)
- Newton-le-Willows (North Yorkshire)
- Newton Longville (Buckinghamshire)
- Newton under Roseberry (North Yorkshire)
- Newton with Scales (Lancashire)
- Walford, Letton and Newton (Herefordshire)
such as:
- RAF Newton , Royal Air Force base in Nottinghamshire
Scotland
- Newton Mearns (East Renfrewshire)
- Newton (South Lanarkshire) , train station
- Newton Stewart (Dumfries and Galloway)
Wales
Canada
- Newton (Edmonton) , a neighborhood in Edmonton, Alberta
- Newton Town Center , a town center in Surrey, British Columbia
- Newton Mills (Nova Scotia)
New Zealand
United States
places
- Newton, Alabama , in Dale County
- Newton, Connecticut , in Fairfield County
- Newton, Georgia , in Baker County
- Newton, Illinois , in Jasper County
- Newton, Iowa , in Jasper County
- Newton, Kansas , in Harvey County
- Newton, Massachusetts , in Middlesex County
- Newton, Mississippi , in Newton County
- Newton, New Hampshire , in Rockingham County
- Newton, New Jersey , in Sussex County
- Newton, North Carolina , in Catawba County
- Newton, Texas , in Newton County
- Newton, Utah , in Cache County
- Newton (Manitowoc County, Wisconsin)
- Newton (Vernon County, Wisconsin)
- Newton (Town, Manitowoc County) , Town (ship) in Wisconsin
- Newton (Town, Marquette County) , Town (ship) in Wisconsin
See also:
Administrative units
Counties :
- Newton County, Arkansas
- Newton County, Georgia
- Newton County (Indiana)
- Newton County, Mississippi
- Newton County, Missouri
- Newton County, Texas
- Newton Township, Arkansas
- Newton Township (Illinois)
- Newton Township (Indiana)
- Newton Township (Buchanan County, Iowa)
- Newton Township (Carroll County, Iowa)
- Newton Township (Jasper County, Iowa)
- Newton Township (Winnebago County, Iowa)
- Newton Township (Kansas)
- Newton Township (Calhoun County, Michigan)
- Newton Township (Mackinac County, Michigan)
- Newton Township, Minnesota
- Newton Township (Missouri)
- Newton Township (Licking County, Ohio)
- Newton Township (Miami County, Ohio)
- Newton Township (Muskingum County, Ohio)
- Newton Township (Pike County, Ohio)
- Newton Township (Trumbull County, Ohio)
- Newton Township, Pennsylvania
Others
- Newton Falls , waterfall in Ohio
- Newton Grove, North Carolina
Outside the earth
- Newton (moon crater) , crater of the earth's moon
- Newton (Mars) , crater of Mars
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Select Newton Surname Genealogy. In: The Select Surname Website. Retrieved May 26, 2009 .
- ^ A b Surname: Newtown. Name Origin Research, accessed May 26, 2009 (English, 1980-2007).
- ^ Newton . In: The Internet Surname Database (surnamedb.com); accessed on June 2, 2016.