Newport, East Riding of Yorkshire

Historical Description

Newport, a village in Eastrington parish, in the E.R. Yorkshire. The village stands on Market Weighton Canal, 1½ mile NE of Staddlethorpe station on the N.E.R., and 8 miles from Howden, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office (R.S.O.) There is a large industry in draining; pipes, bricks, and tiles. There are Wesleyan, Primitive Methodist, and Roman Catholic chapels, and a school church.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Newport from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Newport-Wallingfen)

Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for the East Riding of Yorkshire is available to browse.

Maps

Online maps of Newport are available from a number of sites:

• Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• Google Streetview.
• National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
• OpenStreetMap.
• old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
• Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)

Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following East Riding newspapers online:

• Hull Daily Mail
• Hull Packet
• Driffield Times
• Hull Advertiser and Exchange Gazette
• Beverley and East Riding Recorder