Other controversial schemes proposed by his government were a massive freeway system that was planned to be driven through the hearts of historic inner-city suburbs including Glebe and Newtown and an equally ambitious scheme of ' slum clearance ' that would have brought about the wholescale destruction of the historic areas of Woolloomooloo and The Rocks.

eventually when the town was settledit was established as the Parish of Newbury, which incorporated parts of neighboring Newtown and Danbury, the town of Brookfield was established in 1788.

In the 18th century the community was called " Newbury ", a name that came from the three towns from which its land was taken – New Milford, Newtown, and Danbury.

The final boundary adjustment to Fairfield County occurred in 1788 when the town of Brookfield was incorporated from parts of Newtown, Danbury, and New Milford, with Fairfield County gaining territory from Litchfield County.

Limavady sprang up within the townland of Rathbrady Beg in the parish of Drumachose and was original known as Newtown Limavady.

In 1605, Hugh Montgomery was granted the lands and set about rebuilding what was by then known as Newtown, later expanded to Newtownards.

The county seat was moved from Newtown to Ozark 1870.

But King William's War broke out in May 1689, and by July, Newtown was destroyed and its garrison abandoned.

Newtown was reestablished in 1714, then incorporated in 1716 as Georgetown-on-Arrowsic, named after King George I.

In 1714, Newtown was reestablished, then incorporated in 1716 as Georgetown-on-Arrowsic by the Massachusetts General Court.

The town was incorporated as Newtown ( or New Town ) in 1865, but was reincorporated in 1878 as Pocomoke City, after the American Indian name of the river, meaning “ black water .”

A number of the residents felt they were too far away from its church for their convenience, and the town was incorporated by Colonial Governor Benning Wentworth as Newtown in 1749, simply because it was a new town.

In 1829, part of Green Township were transferred to Byram Township, but in 1853 Green Township was expanded to include a section of the old Newtown Township.

Catharine was taken from the Town of Elmira ( then called " Newtown ") in 1798.

Originally called " Newtown ", the town was renamed in 1783 in honor of Colonel Thomas Wade after his service with the Minutemen in the Revolutionary War.

Newtown was first settled in 1792 under the name of Mercersburg.

Newtown is surrounded by Anderson Township, from which it was split in the 1960s.

Newton Falls was likely named for Newtown, Connecticut in the early 19th century at the time of its settlement.

Newtown was founded by William Penn in 1684.

The presence of large bald cypress swamps along the Pocomoke River led to logging, the manufacture of roofing shingles, and shipbuilding along the river at Newtown ( later Pocomoke City ).

Hooker arrived in Boston and settled in Newtown ( later renamed Cambridge ), where he became the pastor of the First Parish Church.

Just two years later his father arranged a trip to Jan Churchill's Welsh Forest Rally School near Newtown, Powys where Burns drove a Ford Escort for the day, and from that moment on he knew what he wanted to do.

The family later moved to Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, where his father was the proprietor of the Square Tavern, still standing in that town.

In 1961, after a year performing in jubilees, sock hops and school functions, the Ordettes, then managed by respected music manager Bernard Montague, who later managed several other Philadelphia-based groups such as The Stylistics and The Delfonics, got their first deal with Harold Robinson's Newtown Records.

The Cudworth Urban District Council were responsible for a great many changes within its boundaries including the development of a number of housing estates, including the Newtown and Birkwood estates and the much later Crown estate.

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, he played in a blues-rock group with hints of progressive rock and heavy rock called Iron Maiden-not the famous group of the same name-along with Barry Skeels, who later played for Zior and eventually became a tour manager for acts such as Black Sabbath, Saxon, Manowar, and Yngwie Malmsteen ( another member of the band was called Steve Drewett, but probably he is not the same person as the one who later founded The Newtown Neurotics ).

* Ninian Melville Jnr ( 1843 – 1897 ), local furniture maker and member of the NSW Parliament who also became Mayor of Newtown and later Ashfield.

It had its own train station on the Reading Railroad's Newtown line ( later the Fox Chase Line ), and its own post office branch.

Through Pant the canal ran alongside the Oswestry and Newtown Railway, which later became part of the Cambrian Railways network.

The town was originally called Francheville ( i. e., Freetown ), and only later was it renamed Newtown.

Later that year, the first company was expanded with a hook and ladder and renamed Ivanhoe Fire Hook and Ladder Company and 2 months later became Company 10 in the Newtown Fire Department.

Jeremiah and Abigail ( Noble ) Osborn Day, who were descendants of Robert Day, who came from Ipswich, England in 1634, settled in Newtown Cambridge, Massachusetts, and later became one of the original proprietors of Hartford, Connecticut.

Prior to that, the high school was located in a smaller building on Chancellor Street in Newtown ; a building that later became Chancellor Street Elementary school before closing in 2002.

As well as Agecroft Colliery, there were coal mines at the Wheatsheaf Colliery on Bolton Road ( A666 ) between Carrington Street and City Walk on what is now known as Wheatsheaf Industrial Estate ( which includes a McDonald's fast food restaurant ), Wet Earth Colliery in Clifton, which featured in several of Lowry's works, Clifton Hall Colliery ( also in Clifton ) on the western side of Lumns Lane, which closed in 1929, and Newtown Colliery ( on the Clifton / Newtown, Pendlebury boundary, bounded by Manchester Road / Bolton Road ( A666 ), Billy Lane, Rake Lane and the pit lodge, which later became known as " Queensmere ").

She later auditioned for the " Newtown Performing Arts High School " in which she got in, studying dance and drama.

The county government was moved to Newtown, which later became known as Greensburg.

Three years later, Andrew married Sarah Brown ( 1756 / 8 – 1827 ) of Newtown, Pennsylvania, with whom he would have ten children, one of which died as a child.

Growing up in Toowoomba, Witt attended Harristown State High School where he was a champion junior boxer and played rugby league for the Newtown Lions in the local junior competition, and he later went on to represent Queensland in rugby league at the Under 15 level in 1999 and the Under 16 level in 2000.

The band performed its first televised performances over four nights ( 3 – 6 May 2000 ) on Newtown Salad, a show on Wellington's short-lived local TV station " Channel 7 " ( later renamed " WTV ").

The area was surveyed, re-planned in unbecoming haste and renamed Newtown by October 1904, a commercial area where vast fortunes in milling, production of sugar and food merchandising would be made.

* Lietrim ( renamed Pine Villa in 1843 ), Newtown, Sydney, 1833