Newnham, Hertfordshire

Description
Newnham, a village and a parish in Herts. The village stands on a brook at the foot of high chalk hills, 1 mile E of the boundary with Beds, and 2 1/4 miles N of Baldock station on the Hitchin and Cambridge branch of the G.N.R., and has a post office under Baldock (R.S.O.); money order and telegraph office, Ashwell. The parish comprises 975 acres; population, 125. The manor, with most of the land, belongs to the Mills family. The living is a vicarage in The diocese of St Albans; net value, £95 with residence. The church is an ancient building of stone in the Early English style, with an embattled parapet all round it, and consists of nave, S aisle, and chancel, with porch and embattled western tower. It has an ancient tomb, a brass of 1490, and another of 1607.