It is in the Thames Valley, about 0.5 miles (800 m) east of the market town of Wallingford.

Newnham Murren is now contiguous with the village of Crowmarsh Gifford.

Newnham Murren is an ancient parish, recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Niweham.

Newnham Murren was a strip parish: a thin strip of land extending into the Chiltern Hills[2] including part of Stoke Row.

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