Newton Blossomville


Newton Blossomville is a village in the unitary authority area of the City of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England. It is a civil parish, sharing a joint parish council with Clifton Reynes. At the 2011 census, the population of the parish was 329, an increase of 17.5% on the 280 figure for 2001
It is located in the north of the Borough, about east of Olney, west of Bedford, and north-east of Central Milton Keynes, close to the Bucks/Beds border.

History

The village name 'Newton' is an Old English language word meaning 'new village' or 'new homestead'. It was recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 under the holdings of Clifton Reynes as not much was left of the original settlement. Called 'Neutone' when first named independently in 1175, it gained the affix 'Blossevill', referring to the family name of the lords of the manor in the 13th century.
In 1419, it appears as "Newenton Blosumvyll".

Listed buildings and structures

The parish has one scheduled ancient monument, one grade II* listed building, and 14 at grade II.

Services

Today, the only service remaining in the village is the Newton Blossomville Church of England First School. The village post office has been closed for many years, as is common for other villages of this size. The nearest railway station,, was closed when the Bedford to Northampton Line was closed in the 1960s. For a brief time the new diesel engines were tested along the railway. Some of the line remains but much is unused and overgrown or incorporated into the adjacent fields. Although, a section is used as private access to Newton Lodge Farm in Spring Lane, Clifton Reynes, coming off Clifton Road, to the west of the remains of the Clifton Road railway bridge, where once a track with a railway crossing used to run to "Costerpits Farm".

Notable former inhabitants