Newington Family History

from Newington next Hythe (Kent) which is recorded as Niwan tune in about 1100 Newington by Sittingbourne (Kent) or from one or more of the many other places of this name such as Newington (Surrey), Newington Bagpath (Gloucs), Newington and North and South Newington (all Oxon), and Long and North Newnton (Wilts). The place-names derive from Old English nīwe ‘new’ (oblique case nīwan) + tūn ‘farmstead, settlement’; (æt þǣm) nīwan tūne ‘(at the) new farmstead’.

from Newenden (Kent) which is recorded as Neuuenden in 107 The place name derives from Old English nīwe ‘new’ (oblique case nīwan) + denn ‘woodland pasture’; (æt þǣm) nīwan denn ‘(at the) new woodland pasture’.