Newton is a village on the Wirral Peninsula

Wirral Peninsula

Wirral or the Wirral is a peninsula in North West England. It is bounded by three bodies of water: to the west by the River Dee, forming a boundary with Wales, to the east by the River Mersey and to the north by the Irish Sea. Both terms "Wirral" and "the Wirral" are used locally , although the...

, England

England

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, in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral

Metropolitan Borough of Wirral

The Metropolitan Borough of Wirral is a metropolitan borough of Merseyside, in North West England. It has a population of 311,200, and encompasses of the northern part of the Wirral Peninsula. Major settlements include Birkenhead, Wallasey, Bebington, Heswall, Hoylake and West Kirby. The city of...

. It is a part of the suburban town of West Kirby

West Kirby

West Kirby is a town on the north-west corner of the coast of the Wirral Peninsula, England, at the mouth of the River Dee across from the Point of Ayr in North Wales. To the north-east of the town lies Hoylake, with the suburbs of Grange and Newton to the east, and the village of Caldy to the...

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Newton consists of a village hall, post office, public house and a general store. The local park, aptly named Newton Park, has a football pitch

Association football pitch

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, outdoor basketball courts and a playground for children. Wirral Council also has several allotments in Newton that are provided for residents to grow their own vegetables and plants.

History

Newton was previously combined with the hamlet

Hamlet (place)

A hamlet is usually a rural settlement which is too small to be considered a village, though sometimes the word is used for a different sort of community. Historically, when a hamlet became large enough to justify building a church, it was then classified as a village...

 of Larton

Larton

Larton is a hamlet, located next to Frankby and near to West Kirby, on the Wirral Peninsula, England. The name is of Viking origin, deriving from the Old Norse Leir-tun, meaning 'clay farmstead'. Larton was formerly part of Newton-cum-Larton, in the West Kirby parish of the Wirral Hundred...

 as Newton-cum-Larton, part of West Kirby parish

Parish

A parish is a territorial unit historically under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of one parish priest, who might be assisted in his pastoral duties by a curate or curates - also priests but not the parish priest - from a more or less central parish church with its associated organization...

 of the Wirral Hundred. Its population was 49 in 1801 and 44 in 1851.

Bus

Services operating in the Newton area, as of December 2008:

Number	Route	Operator	Days of Operation
22/22A	Caldy-Chester	Avon Buses	Monday-Saturday
N37	Hoylake-Liverpool	Arriva North West Arriva North West Arriva North West is a division of Arriva that operates bus services around North West England. It consists of two companies: Arriva North West Ltd and Arriva Merseyside Ltd....	Saturday night/Sunday morning
83/83A	West Kirby-Birkenhead	Avon Buses	Monday-Friday
138/139	Newton-Meols	A1A Travel	Monday-Saturday
186	Eastham Ferry-Leasowe	Avon Buses	Evenings and Sundays
293	West Kirby-Woodside	A1A Travel	Evenings and Sundays
420	West Kirby-Liverpool	Arriva North West	Monday-Friday mornings
437	West Kirby-Liverpool	Arriva North West	Monday-Sunday