Newtown
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Concept
- Geographers and town planners use the term New town for a planned development of a completely new city or a major expansion of an existing town.
Places
Europe
United Kingdom
Several places in the United Kingdom bear the name Newtown:- Newtown, Hampshire
- Newtown, Isle of Wight
- Newtown, Worcestershire
- Newtown, Wales, mid Wales
- Newtown Ho
- Newtown Linford
- Newtown, Birmingham
Isle of Man
The Isle of Man, a country in its own right, dependent on the British Crown, has:USA
Several places in the United States of America have the name Newtown:- Newtown, Aiea, Hawaii
- Newtown, Connecticut
- Newtown, Indiana
- Newtown, Missouri
- Newtown, New York
- Newtown, Ohio
- Newtown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania
- Newtown, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania
- Newtown Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania
- Newtown Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania
- Newtown, a community near Elmira, New York, where Major General John Sullivan's forces participated in a decisive battle in Sullivan's Campaign of the American Revolutionary War against Tory Col. John Butler and Iroquois Chief Joseph Brant.
Australia
In Australia:New Zealand
- Newtown, New Zealand, a suburb of Wellington
People
- Jack Newtown, a claquing nickname of F1 World Champion Jacques Villeneuve
Other
- Newtown, a founding team in the NSWRL in Australia
- [Newtown], an upscale restaurant on Crescent St. in Montreal, founded by Jacques Villeneuve and named after himself.
Newton, Newtown, New Town, and Newtonville
Distinguish carefully the separate names: see also
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