In which English county was Isaac Newton born?

Isaac Newton was born in the English county of Lincolnshire.

Newton was born at Woolsthorpe Manor in Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, a hamlet near Grantham in Lincolnshire. His birth date was recorded as 25 December 1642 under England’s Julian calendar, corresponding to 4 January 1643 in the modern Gregorian calendar.

His father, also named Isaac Newton, died about three months before Newton was born. Newton was premature and reportedly so small that his mother said he could have fitted inside a quart mug. When he was three, his mother remarried, and his maternal grandmother largely raised him at Woolsthorpe.

Newton later attended the King’s School in Grantham before entering Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1661. His rural birthplace is closely associated with the famous apple story, although the popular tale should not be treated as a complete account of how he developed the theory of universal gravitation. Woolsthorpe Manor is now preserved by the National Trust.