NEWTON REGIS, in Domesday "Niwetone," is a village and parish on the borders of Leicestershire, 3 miles north-east from Tamworth station on the Midland and Tamworth section of the London and North-Western railway, 1 north-east from Tamworth, and 6 south-west from Ashby-de-la-Zouch, in the Northern division of the county, Tamworth division of the hundred of Hemlingford, Atherstone petty sessional division, Tamworth union and county court district, rural deanery of Polesworth, Archdeaconry and Diocese of Lichfield. By the operation of Local Government Order, March 29th, 1887, the parish of No Man's Heath was amalgamated with Newton Regis. The church of St. Mary is an edifice of stone in the Decorated style, consisting of chancel, embattled nave, south porch and tower of Decorated style, with 4 pinnacles, containing a clock and 2 bells: there is a low-side window, now closed up: the church affords 100 sittings, no being free. The register dates from the year 1597. The living is a rectory, gross yearly value £390, including 48 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Lichfield, esq. and Sir Francis Burdett bart, and held since 1885 by the Rev. George Clayton Francis, B.A. Oxford University. A large reading room and lecture room for religious purposes were erected here in 1883 by Mrs. King of Thorpe Hall, for the use of the villagers; a cottage is attached for the caretaker. The river Anker rises here. The principal landowners are Earl Howe, Henry Harpur Crewe esq. of Thorpe Constantine, Staffs. and William Bromley esq. are lords of the manor and principal land owners. The soil is clay and sand; subsoil, sandstone. Wheat and crops are grown; butter and nuts. The area is 2,091 acres of land and 4 of water: the population, with No Man's Heath, in 1891 was 488. Parish Clerk: Thomas Randle. Post & M. O. O. S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office — Daniel Harrison, sub-postmaster. Letters received from Tamworth at 8 a.m., and despatched at 5 p.m. The nearest telegraph office is at Polesworth. National School, erected in 1848 for 113 children; average attendance, 82; Charles Edmund Martin, master; Mrs. Elizabeth Martin, mistress. NO MAN'S HEATH, situated at the junction of the counties of Stafford, Leicester, Derby and Warwick, 6 miles north-north-east from Tamworth, and 4 north from Atherstone, originally extra-parochial and an open common, is now enclosed and some cottages have been built by people termed "squatters." It was formed into an ecclesiastical district in the year, and has since been amalgamated under a Local Government Order with the parish of Newton Regis. The church of St. Mary the Virgin, erected by subscription the 1857, is an edifice of brick, in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave, vestry and western tower, which is a well-known landmark in the district: the church affords 250 sittings, 120 sittings. The register dates from the year 1857. The living is a perpetual curacy, gross yearly value £195, residence, built on a site given by the Rev. George Inge, in the gift of the Bishop of Lichfield, esq. Incumbent since 1886, the Rev. Henry Wickham Legge, M.A. Magdalen Hall, Oxford. Colonel Sir Francis Burdett bart. and Henry Harpur Crewe esq. are the principal landowners. The soil is clay; subsoil, clay. The land in the old part of No Man's Heath is occupied in cottages, with gardens attached. Parish Clerk, Samuel Heath. Wall Letter Box, cleared at 4:45 p.m. Letters are received from Tamworth at 8 a.m., and at 5 p.m. The nearest money order office is at Newton Regis, & telegraph office at Elford. Infants' School, for 19 children; average attendance, 10; Mrs. Frances Heath, mistress. The older children attend the Newton Regis & Appleby schools.

from Kelly's Directory of Warwickshire 1896