Newtown Square Real Estate and Community Guide

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Newtown 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 and Newtown Street Road. The Township was laid out around a center square, or "townstead" of approximately one square mile surrounded by farmland.

Today Newtown in considered a second class township with a land area of 10.11 square miles, and a population of 16,000 individuals. Some farms and large estates remain, but for the most part, the Township was developed into a suburban community with old stone homes and structures dotting the landscape to serve as reminders of days gone by.

The Episcopal Academy, founded in 1785, is a private, co-educational school for grades Pre-K through 12. In 2008, it relocated from its Merion campus to its new 123-acre state-of-the-art campus in Newtown Square.