Newborough in 1817

Description from A Topographical History of Staffordshire by William Pitt (1817)

NEWBOROUGH.

Newborough is another township belonging to the parish of Hanbury, to which, like Marchington, it has a chapel of ease, situated two miles west of the mother church, on a small stream called Swerbourn, which runs alongside the borders of the forest, through Yoxall into the Trent.

This place was first established by Robert, son of Henry de Ferrers, about the commencement of the eleventh century, who granted certain parcels of land and several immunities to 101 burgesses. In consequence of these privileges, Newborough was inhabited by handicraftsmen, and soon became a flourishing place.

The manor of Agardsley, within which this township stands, passed with that of Marchington to the Chetwynd family, and so to the present proprietor, Earl Talbot. Several of the present inhabitants of Newborough are weavers of linen and checks.

The chapel is a small modern building, and contains no monuments, for the inhabitants of the township bury their dead at the mother church in Hanbury.

Thorney-hill is an ancient hamlet in the chapelry of Newborough