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Newsham

NEWSHAM, an extra-parochial liberty, in the union of Caistor, E. division of the wapentake of Yarborough, parts of Lindsey, county of Lincoln, 9½ miles (N. W. by W.) from Great Grimsby; containing 14 inhabitants, and comprising 703 acres of land. Bishop Tanner states that the first monastery of the Præmonstratensian order in England was founded here, by Peter de Gousla or Gousel, in 1143, according to some; in 1146, according to others. The monastery was dedicated to the honour of St. Mary and St. Martial, and at the Dissolution consisted of an abbot and eleven canons, whose yearly revenue amounted to £114. 1. 4.; it was granted to Charles, Duke of Suffolk.

Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.

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