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A market centre in the Middle Ages, King's Newton is now a village of rare delight, on one side the winding valley of the Trent with Weston's spire in the trees, on the other, Breedon's church high on the hill.
Its road, with wayside lawns, is packed with charming pictures. On a great square flight of steps is a cross of 1936 marking, probably uniquely, the accession of Edward VIII, and taking the place of the old cross whose richly carved head is now in Melbourne church. Near it is the 18th century church house with round steps.
The gabled Chantry House looks across to a charming row of brick and timber cottages.
A little inn and the delightful house called Four Gables (both built of brick and timber) look over the way to the great house behind a charming garden wall lined with trimmed limes. Rebuilt in 1910, it followed the style of the Elizabethan Hall, long the home of the Hardinge family, which was burned down.
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