Newton Nottage, Glamorgan

Description
Newton Nottage, a village and a parish in Glamorgan. The village stands on The coast, 1 mile NE of Porthcawl station on the Llynvi and Ogmore branch of the G.W.R., and 5 miles SW by W of Bridgend, and is a pleasant watering-place. It has a post and money order office, called Newton, under Bridgend; telegraph office, Porthcawl. The parish contains also the village of Nottage and the seaport village of Porthcawl, and comprises 3372 acres of land, 19 of water, and 456 of foreshore; population, 1758. Newton Downs were enclosed in 1864, retain traces of the Julian Way, and command extensive views over the Bristol Channel. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Llandaff; net value, £243. The church was partly restored in 1862, and again in 1885, and contains a very ancient unique carved stone pulpit. Besides All Saints there are Baptist, Congregational, and Wesleyan chapels at Porthcawl, a Congregational chapel at Newton, and a Baptist chapel at Nottage. See PORTHCAWL.