Place:Newton Harcourt, Leicestershire, England

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Name	Newton Harcourt
Alt names	Neutone	source: Domesday Book (1985) p 162
	Newton-Harcourt	source: Family History Library Catalog
	Niwetone	source: Domesday Book (1985) p 162
Type	Chapelry, Civil parish
Coordinates	52.567°N 1.067°W
Located in	Leicestershire, England
See also	Gartree Hundred, Leicestershire, England	hundred in which the parish was included
	Billesdon Rural, Leicestershire, England	rural district of which it was part 1894-1974
	Harborough District, Leicestershire, England	district municipality covering the area since 1974

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source: Family History Library Catalog

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Newton Harcourt is a village in the Leicestershire, England, south of the city of Leicester.

The village is divided from its church by the Leicester Arm of the Grand Union Canal and the Midland Main Line railway both of which pass to the south of the main settlement.

Administratively, Newton Harcourt now forms part of the civil parish of Wistow (where its population was included) and of the Harborough District.

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

"NEWTON-HARCOURT, a village and a township-chapelry in Wistow parish, Leicestershire. The village stands on the Union canal, near the river Soar, and near the Leicester and Hitchin railway, 1 mile W N W of Glen [railway] station, and 6½ S E by S of Leicester; and has a post-office under Leicester. The chapelry comprises 880 acres. Real property: £1,886. Population: 207. Houses: 51. The manor belongs to Sir Henry Halford, Bart.; and the Manor House is the residence of H. St. John Halford, Esq. The living is a [perpetual] curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Wistow, in the diocese of Peterborough. The church stands near the Manor House, and has a low tower. Charities, £12."

Newton Harcourt became a separate civil parish in 1866 and was a parish in Billesdon Rural District between 1894 and 1936. Prior to 1866 it was a chapelry in Wistow parish, and in 1936 it was absorbed completely into Wistow.

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Victoria County History - Leicestershire - Vol 5, pp336-345 - Parish: Wistow. (London, 1964) British History Online. University of London. There is a separate secton on Newton Harcourt within the Wistow chapter.
The map on the place-page for Billesdon Rural District illustrates the location of the various parishes.
From this Findmypast page you can browse the Leicestershire parishes which have parish register transcripts online.
From this Ancestry page you can browse the Leicestershire parishes which have parish register transcripts online.
For both of the above sites, a subscription is charged. Transcriptions of these records may also be available free of charge on the FamilySearch website.
A further collection of online source references will be found on the county page for Leicestershire.