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Rh NEWBOLD. 22 NEWBOROUGH ST. PETER. Killeevan, tar. of Dartree, co. Monaghan, prov. of Ulster, Ireland, 9 miles S.W. of Monaghan. It is a station on the Irish North-Western railway. It is situated on the road from Ballybay to Clones, near Lough Leesborough. It contains a church, Presbyterian meeting-house, and two schools ; also a police station, market-house, and dispensary, which last is in the Clones Poor-law Union. Saturday is market day. A fair is held monthly for cattle. NEWBOLD, a tnshp. in the par. of Chesterfield, hund. of Scarsdale, co. Derby, 2J miles N.W. of Chester- field. The village, which is considerable, may be con- sidered a suburb of Chesterfield. It is united with Dunstan to form a township. The living is a perpct. cur. * in the dioc. of Lichfield. The church is modern. There is a free school, endowed by George Milne with land producing an income of 25 ; also almshouses for three poor women, endowed by Mrs. Elizabeth Tomlin- son in 1781 with the interest of 400 in the Four per Cents. NEWBOLD, a lib. in the par. of Breedon-on-the- Hill, hund. of West Goscote, co. Leicester, 3 miles N.E. of Ashby-de-la-Zouch. It is situated on the Leicester railway. NEWBOLD, a vil. in the par. of Kinoulton, co. Nottingham, 5 miles S. of Bingham. NEWBOLD AND ARMSCOTT, a hmlt. in the par. of Tredington, upper div. of the hund. of Oswaldslow, co. Worcester, 3 miles N. by W. of Shipston-upon-Stour, and 10 from Evesham. It is situated near the western bank of the river Stour. NEWBOLD-ASTBURY, a tnshp. in par. of Astbury, hund. of Northwich, co. Chester, 1 mile from Congleton, its post town. It is situated under Mow Cop Ilill, near the border of Staffordshire. NEWBOLD-GROUNDS, a hmlt. in the par. of Catesby Abbey, co. Northampton, 3 miles S.W. of Daventry. NEWBOLD, LEA, a tnshp. in the par. of St. Oswald, co. Chester, 6 miles S. by E. of Chester. It is a small agricultural place. NEWBOLD-PACEY, a par. in the Warwick div. of Kington hund., co. Warwick, 5 miles S.W. of Warwick, 6 N.E. of Stratford, and 6J N. by W. of Kington, its post town. The village, which is of small extent, is situated on a branch of the river Avon, and is chiefly agricultural. The par. contains the hmlt. of Ashorne. It derives its present name from the ancient family of the Paceys, to whom it formerly belonged. The living is a vie.* in the dioc. of Worcester, val. 639, in the patron, of Queen's College, Oxford. The church is an ancient structure, dedicated to St. George. The paro- chial charities produce about 4 per annum. There is a British school, also a place of worship for the Indepen- dents. NEWBOLD-REVEL, a hmlt. in the par. of Monk's Kirby, Kirby div. of Knightlow hund., co. Warwick, 5 miles _N. by W. of Rugby. Mr. Drake's hounds meet in this neighbourhood. The hmlt. is in conjunction with Stre'tton-under-Foss. NEWBOLD-SAUCEY, a hmlt. in the par. of Ouston, hund. of Gartree, co. Leicester, 1 mile N.W. of Ouston, and 7 miles S. by E. of Melton-Mowbray. It comprises only two or three farmhouses. NEVBOLD-UPON-AVON, a par. in the Rugby div. of Knightlow hund., co. Warwick, 2 miles N.W. of Rugby, its nearest railway station and post town. The village is situated on the Oxford canal, near the Midland Counties railway, which passes through the parish. It is watered by the rivers Avon and Swift. The par. comprises the hmlts. of Cosford, Little Harborough, Little Lawford, and Long Lawford. There are exten- sive lime quarries. The inhabitants are chiefly engaged in agriculture. It is a meet for the Atherstone hounds. The Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge, are impropriators of part of the rectorial tithes. The living is a vie.* with the cur. of Long Lawford annexed, in the dioc. of Worcester, val. 566. The church, dedicated to St. Botolph, is an ancient structure, with a square tower containing six bells. The interior of the church, which was restored in 1853, contains monuments of the Boughton family, who formerly held the manor. There is also a chapel-of-ease at Long Lawford, recently erected by the late J. Caldecott, Esq. The parochial charities produce about 69 per annum. A schoolhouse, with master's residence, was erected in 1847, at the expense of J. T. Parker, the late vicar. NEWBOLD -UPON -STOUR. See NEWBOLD AND AHMSCOTT, co. Worcester. NEWBOLD-VERDON, a par. in the hund. of Spar- kenhoe, co. Leicester, 3 miles N.E. of Market-Bosworth, its post town, and 3 from the Desford railway station. The village, which is of large extent, is chiefly agricul- tural. The par. includes the hmlt. of Brascote, and was formerly held by the Verduns, of whose mansion there are still traces. The living is a rect.* in the dioc. of Peterborough, val. 500. The church, dedicated to St. James, has a square tower containing two bells. The church was thoroughly restored a few years back at an outlay of 700. The parochial charities produce about 40 per annum, of which 20 goes to Lord Crewe's free school. There is a place of worship for the General Baptists. Sir E. C. Hartopp is lord of the manor. NEWBOROUGH, a tnshp. and chplry. in the par. of Haubury, N. div. of Offlow hund., co. Stafford, 3J miles from Sudbury, its nearest railway station and post town, and 4 N.E. of Abbots-Bromley. The village, which is situated in a narrow vale, is wholly agricultural. The chplry. comprises the tnshps. of Thorney-Lane and Hoarcross. The living is a perpet. cur.* in the dioc. of Lichfield, val. 107, in the patron, of the Vicar of Hanbury. The church, dedicated to All Saints, has a square tower containing a clock. There are a free school for forty girls, and a partly endowed boys' school ; the former is entirely supported by T. K. Hall, Esq., of Holly Bush, who provides each of the girls with new clothes at Easter, and a dinner every Sunday. Holly Bush Hall and Hoarcross Hall are the principal resi- dences. NEWBOROUGH, a tnshp. in the par. of Coxwold, wap. of Birdforth, North Riding co. York, 8 miles S.W. of Helmsley. The tnshp. is of large extent, and includes the ext. par. district of Morton. A priory of Black Canons was founded here in 1145 by Roger de Mowbray, which at the Dissolution had a revenue of 457 13s. 5rf. William de Newburgh, the monkish historian, was a member of this priory. NEWBOROUGH AND BOROUGH FEN, a par. of the lib. of Peterborough, co. Northampton, 5 miles from Market-Deeping, its post town, and the same distance N.E. of Peterborough. This place, formerly a tract called Borough Fen Common, was about the commence- ment of the present century elevated into a parish. It is bounded on the S. and S.W. by the Carr Dyke. The parish is very extensive, and the chief part of the land improved by drainage, A great portion of it is used in grazing cattle. The inhabitants are chiefly engaged in agriculture. In the neighbourhood is an interesting structure called the Decoy Farm, belonging to the Williams family, so named from the former occupant's success in the capture of wild fowl. The village, which is small, lies midway betweeji Peterborough and C'rnv- laud. The living is a perpet. cur. in the dioc. of Peterborough, val. 250, in the patron, of the crown. The church, dedicated to St. Bartholomew, is a white brick structure, with a small square tower containing two bells. The church was erected in 1830, upon the creation of the parish. There are a National school for both sexes, and a Sunday-school. The Earl Filzwilliam and the Marquis of Exeter are lords of the manor. NEWBOROUGH ST. PETER, anciently Llancmno, a par. and decayed market town in the hund. of Menai, co. Anglesey, 12 miles from Bangor, and 5 from Car- narvon. It is situated near the coast, and is named by the Welsh Rhos-hir, from its site on the Moeldraeth Sands, near a long dorsal ridge, covered with heath and rare maritime plants, interesting to the botanist. This place, which is now only a poor, decayed village, was