Buckland Newton is a village in north Dorset, England, situated under the scarp of the Dorset Downs, six miles south of Sherborne. The village has a population of 618 (2001). People have worshipped at the Church of the Holy Rood in Buckland Newton since the 13th century.
The village lies within the Buckland Newton Hundred
Famous quotes containing the word newton:
“Where the statue stood
Of Newton with his prism and silent face,
The marble index of a mind for ever
Voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone.”
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850)