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Newton, Wold

NEWTON, WOLD, a parish, in the union of Bridlington, wapentake of Dickering, E. riding of York, 11½ miles (N. by E.) from Driffield; containing 245 inhabitants. This parish, which is situated in the Wolds, comprises by computation 2000 acres; the soil is light and gravelly. The surface is diversified with hills and dales, presenting a great variety of scenery, and enlivened by a considerable lake, fed by one of those copious springs of water which, during the latter part of the winter and the earlier part of spring, issue from different portions of the Wolds with great force, and are called Gypsey springs. The parish was anciently a chapelry to Hunmanby, where the inhabitants were accustomed to bury till the consecration of their own churchyard in 1828. The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king's books at £6. 19. 9½.; net income, £130; patron and impropriator, the Hon. Marmaduke Langley, of Wykeham Abbey. The church, an ancient structure repaired in 1839 at an expense of £250, contains 150 sittings. The vicarage-house was erected at the expense of the Rev. J. Skelton, the present incumbent, assisted by a donation of £100 from the patron. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans.

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

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