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New-Village

NEW-VILLAGE, an extra-parochial liberty, in the union of Howden, Hunsley-Beacon division of the wapentake of Harthill, E. riding of York, 2½ miles (S. W.) from North Cave; containing 160 inhabitants. It comprises 490 acres of land, which formed part of Walling Fen previous to its inclosure in 1780: the village is a suburb of Newport and New Gilberdike, where are commodious wharfs and several brick and tile yards, on both sides of the Market-Weighton canal. The road from North Cave to Howden passes through.

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

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