NEWTON, a town of the county of Lancaster, in the parish of Winwick, and the hundred of West Derby, distant 179 miles from London. It is a borough, and was a market-town, and it had the right of electing two members to the House of Commons, but has been disfranchised. It has some trade in cotton goods. The population amounted in 1801 to 1455, in 1811 to 1589, in 1821 to 1643, and in 1831 to 2139.