NEWTOWN, a parliamentary borough and market-town of Wales, Montgomeryshire, pleasantly situated in a valley on the right bank of the Severn, here crossed by a stone bridge, 8 miles S.W. of Montgomery, and 175 W.N.W. of London. The streets are narrow, and the houses have a very mean appearance, being for the most part built of lath and plaster. The parish church is a building in the early English style, with a square tower, surmounted by a wooden belfry. There are also Baptist, Independent, Wesleyan, and Calvinistic Methodist churches; a theological seminary belonging to the Independents; besides several schools, a town-hall, and a handsome cloth-hall. The manufactures of the place are considerable, and rapidly increasing in extent and importance. Flannel is the principal article produced, and with this Newtown supplies a great part of Wales. There are also tanneries, malt-houses, potteries, and iron-foundries. Newtown joins with Montgomery and other boroughs in returning a member to Parliament. Pop. (1851) of the parish, 3784; of the borough, 6371.