Newton Boyd is a rural locality in the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales, Australia.

[2] The area now known as Newton Boyd lies within the traditional lands of Baanbay people,[3] a group of Gumbainggir.

[11] Despite being occupied by colonial settlers following the establishment of the run, in the 1870s there were still around 200 local Aboriginal people living in the area,[12] and some acts of violence between the two communities.

[15] A site of 1,440 acres was reserved for a village in 1866, 70 chains east of the woolshed of the Newton Boyd run.

[16] In the time before the railway was built to Glen Innes, the old road from Grafton, via Dalmorton and Newton Boyd, completed around 1869, was the main route for transport to and from the Northern Tablelands.

[22] During the early 1920s, some larger holdings in the area were sub-divided and converted to dairy farming, and a cheese factory opened at Newton Boyd.

A sawmill opened around the same time,[23][24] and timber getting in the nearby forests was also an occupation for residents of Newton Boyd.