West Newton, East Riding of Yorkshire
Historical Description
Newton, West, a township, with a village, in Aldbrough parish, E. R, Yorkshire, 4 miles from Ellerby station on the N.E.R., and 8½ NE of Hull. Post town, Hull; money order office, Aldbrough; telegraph office, Burton Constable. Acreage, including Burton Constable, 2069, of which 18 are water; population, 166. Sir F. A. Talbot Clifford-Constable. Bart., is lord of the manor.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5
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 West Newton 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: