Place:Newton in Ewyas Lacy, Herefordshire, England

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Name	Newton in Ewyas Lacy
Alt names	Newton	source: from redirect
	Newton (near Abbeydore)	source: from redirect
	Newton (Golden Valley)	source: Wikipedia
	Newton (near Abbey Dore)	source: alternate name for parish
	Lower Maescoed	source: hamlet in parish
	Middle Maescoed	source: hamlet in parish
Type	Township, Civil parish
Coordinates	51.993°N 2.952°W
Located in	Herefordshire, England
Also located in	Hereford and Worcester, England (1974 - 1998)
	Herefordshire, England (1998 - )
See also	Clodock, Herefordshire, England	ancient parish in which it was a township
	Ewyas Lacy Hundred, Herefordshire, England	hundred in which it was located
	Dore Rural, Herefordshire, England	rural district 1894-1934
	Dore and Bredwardine Rural, Herefordshire, England	rural district 1934-1974
	South Herefordshire District, Hereford and Worcester, England	district municipality covering the area 1974-1998
	Herefordshire District, Herefordshire, England	unitary authority covering the area since 1998

source: Family History Library Catalog

NOTE: There is another place named Newton in Wolphy in Herefordshire. This is considerably northeast of Newton in Ewyas Lacy.

A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Newton in Ewyas Lacy from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:

"NEWTON, a township-chapelry in Clodock parish, Hereford; on the river Escley, 4 miles W of Abbeydore [=Abbey Dore], and 5 N W of Pontrilas [railway] station. Post-town: Abbey-dore, under Hereford. Real property: £1, 358. Population: 263. Houses: 56. The living is a [perpetual] curacy in the diocese of Hereford. Value: £80. Patron: the Vicar of Clodock. The church is modern, and has a belfry."

Newton is noted in Wikipedia as Newton (Golden Valley), but there is no article. The parish contains the hamlets of Lower Maescoed and Middle Maescoed. See Ordnance Survey map of 1900 of Herefordshire. The civil parish is bounded on the north and east by St. Margaret, on the southeast by Bacton, on the south and west by Longtown, and on the northwest by Michaelchurch Escley.

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Research Tips

Herefordshire Archive and Records Centre, Fir Tree Lane, Rotherwas, Hereford HR2 6LA is where paper and microfilm copies of all records for Herefordshire are stored. The Archives Centre has a website where the index to the archives (and also the wills catalog) can be searched. One item in the catalog is List of all Herefordshire parish register and bishops transcripts holdings which is a PDF file with information provided in an old version of Excel.

Online sources which may also be helpful:

GENUKI gives pointers to other archive sources as well as providing some details on each parish in the county. The emphasis here is on ecclesiastical parishes (useful before 1837)
A listing of all the Registration Districts in England and Wales since their introduction in 1837 and tables of the parishes that were part of each district and the time period covered with detailed notes on changes of parish name, mergers, etc. Do respect the copyright on this material.
The FamilySearch Wiki for Herefordshire provides a similar but not identical series of webpages to that provided by GENUKI
A Vision of Britain through Time has a group of pages of statistical facts for almost every parish in the county
Unfortunately, only one volume on Herefordshire has been published in the Victoria County History series. British History Online have produced a series of Ordnance Survey first edition maps for the county which may be helpful for mid-nineteenth century inquiries
Ancestry.co.uk lists its collections of Herefordshire genealogical material.
FindMyPast collections of historical records can be searched for Herefordshire. They have collections of parish records for the pre-1837 period.