{"id":10911,"count":1,"description":"Newtown Township is a township in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States (prior to 1789 it was part of Chester County). Newtown Township is the oldest township in Delaware County. The population was 11,700 as of the 2000 census.\nNewtown Square Township was settled in 1681 and incorporated as a Township in 1684. In 1681, William Penn planned the \"first inland town west of Philadelphia\" at the intersection of Goshen Road (laid out in 1687) and Newtown Street Road (laid out in 1683). The Township was laid out around a center square, or \"townstead\" of approximately one square mile surrounded by farmland. Original purchasers of land in the Township received 1-acre (4,000\u00a0m) in the townstead for every ten acres of surrounding farm land. Penn has planned New Town while still in England and was able to sell a considerable number of tracts before leaving England. However, many of these people \"...never lived on the land,\" the properties changed hands many times, and thus, early growth of...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/newtown-square\/","name":"Newtown Square","slug":"newtown-square","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/10911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=10911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}