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General
The name Newton derives from the Old English niwe and tun and means ‘new farmstead’. By the time of the Domesday survey the village was named Neutone.
In 1152 to 1158 Walter Gifford, the Earl of Buckingham, granted Newton to the church of St Faith of Longueville, it is from there that the Longville aspect of the name is derived. Around 1150 Walter had set up a cluniac priory (modelled on the abbey church in Cluny, France) in the village which was tied to the abbey of Santa Foy (St Faith) which had been founded by his father at Longueville-sur-Scie. The abbey had been founded on condition that the prior would send monks to help construct a church and teach the Faith to the inhabitants of Newton. Today the village is located just outside the urban sprawl of Milton Keynes.
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Whaddon Road
Tom, a resident of Newton Longville, took a walk to the phone box outside St Faith’s church to call his son. It was around midnight when he made the call and was in the middle of a conversation when someone rapped on the glass of the phone box. When he looked round there was no one there. During the following month he used the box several times, always around the same time, and each time he would hear footsteps approaching followed by a tap on the glass. The fifth time this happened Tom tried to ignore it but the taps became insistent. All of a sudden he felt three, firm nudges on his shoulder but again there was no one there. Maybe it is a coincidence but the box is outside a graveyard. After that Tom started making the calls earlier in the evening.
Other residents have also had ghostly experiences there. These have included sensations like static electricity, rustling in the hedgerow when there seemed to be nothing there and the same sound of approaching feet. Dogs have also become agitated when they are near the phone box.
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