The Domesday Book listed Newton in 1086 as part of the holdings of the Valletorts of Trematon, across the Tamar, who handed it to the Ferrers family.

There were sixteen villeins listed in the manor in the Domesday Book, the farmsteads of which are still recognizable today.

By 1200 most of the boundaries and general landscape patterns had been established and they remained largely untouched until the end of the 19th century.

[3] The villages are situated on the mouth of the River Yealm,[4] and overlooks Hillsea Point Rock.

Newton and Noss lies a couple of miles south of the city of Plymouth and is surrounded by the parishes of Wembury to the west, Brixton to the northwest, Yealmpton to the northeast and Holbeton to the east.