Newton Purcell is a village in the civil parish of Newton Purcell with Shelswell, in the Cherwell district, in the county of Oxfordshire, England, 4+1⁄2 miles (7 km) southeast of Brackley in neighbouring Northamptonshire.

The course of the Roman road that linked Alchester near Bicester with Lactodurum (now Towcester) runs through the parish just east of the village.

[3] The house has not survived, but in the 1950s fragments of its moat and a mound where it stood were still visible just east of the village.

[3] In 1875 the architect CN Beazley restored the building and added the vestry, bell-gable and south porch.

[3] In 1899 the Great Central Railway completed its main line to London through the eastern part of the then Shelswell parish and built Finmere for Buckingham station where the line crosses the main road about 1⁄2 mile (800 m) northeast of Newton Purcell.

[3] Buckingham was almost 5 miles (8 km) from the Great Central station, so the name was subsequently shortened to the more appropriate "Finmere".

[7][8] Newton Purcell had one pub, the Shelswell Inn,[3] it was on the main road near the site of the former railway station.