Wold Newton (Newton le Wold)

The Grimsby Library is an excellent resource with both a Local History section and a Family History section.

Jonathan THACKER has a photograph of the Lychgate on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2011.

Ian S. also has a photograph of the Church Lychgate on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2014.

• The parish was in the Great Grimsby sub-district of the Caistor Registration District.
   
• In April, 1897, the Registration Districts were re-organized and the Grimsby sub-district became its own Registration District.
   
• Check our Census Resource page for county-wide resources.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:

• The Danes are reputed to have sacked the first church built here.
   
• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to All Saints (All Hallows).
   
• The church was rebuilt in 1862 in a 13th century style and reconsecrated on 1 Nov. of that year by the Archbishop of Canterbury.
   
• The church seats about 128.
   
• A photograph of All Saints church is at the Wendy PARKINSON English Church Photographs site.
   
• Richard CROFT has a photograph of All Hallows Church on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2006.
   
• Here is a photo of All Hallows Church, taken by Ron COLE (who retains the copyright):
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1578.
   
• The Lincolnshire FHS has published several marriage indexes and a 1641/2 Protestation Return for the Haverstoe Deanery to make your search easier.
   
• The Primitive Methodists built a chapel in the village in 1849. For more on researching these chapel records, see our non-conformist religions page.
   
• Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.

• The parish was in the Great Grimsby sub-district of the Caistor Registration District.
   
• In April, 1897, the Registration Districts were re-organized and the Grimsby sub-district became its own Registration District.
   
• Check our Civil Registration page for sources and background on Civil Registration which began in July, 1837.

This village and parish are about 10 miles southwest of Grimsby and 9 miles northwest of Louth. Ravendale parish is to the north. The parish covers about 2,070 acres.

If you are planning a visit:

• See our touring page for visitor services.

• Geograph
• Flickr

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Wold Newton (Newton le Wold) to another place.

• In 1828, twenty Saxon burial urns were found in a large tumulus, Swinhope Walk, in the parish.
   
• Elizabeth Davies reports: On 8th July 1893, a terrible thunderstorm swept across Lincolnshire. My Gt Gt Grandfather, James HATCLIFFE, was out in the fields muck spreading, with his two sons, on the farm of Mr. COATES, at Wold Newton. Seeing the wild lightning, he shouted "Better throw your siles, lads", but as he raised his to throw it from him, he was hit by lightning. He was killed, and worse, fell against his 14 year old son Tom and transmitted the shock to the boy, who also died. The case came before the coroner, Mr. C. B. MOODY, who recorded a verdict of accidental death.
   
• Mains water only arrived in the village in the 1970s.

• Wold Newton Manor was the property and residence of William M. WRIGHT in 1912.

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TF244967 (Lat/Lon: 53.452027, -0.127802), Wold Newton (Newton le Wold) which are provided by:

• OpenStreetMap
• Google Maps
• StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
• Bing (was Multimap)
• Old Maps Online
• National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
• Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
• English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
• Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
• GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)

• All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.

• There is a War Memorial inside the church at Wold Newton.
   
• There is also a "wayside" cross at the north end of the village that was erected in 1921 after a public subscription. This cross is in memory of the men who died in World War I.
   

For a photograph of the Wold Newton War Memorial and the list of names on it, see the Roll of Honour site.

• "Wold Newton" is also known as "Newton Wold" or "Newton-le-Wold".

• This place was an ancient parish in Lincolnshire and became a Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• The parish was in the ancient Bradley Haverstoe Wapentake in the Central Lindsey district in the parts of Lindsey.
   
• Kelly's 1912 Directory of Lincolnshire reports, perhaps erroneously, that the parish was in the East Lindsey division of the county.
   
• Brian WESTLAKE has a photograph of Wold Newtons's Village Hall on Geo-graph, taken in January, 2019. Stop in when they are open and ask to see the schedule of forth-coming events. The Hall sometimes hosts talks on local and family history.
   
• District governance is provided by the North-East Lincolnshire Council.

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Grimsby petty session hearings.
   
• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, this parish became part of the Caistor Poor Law Union.
   
• In April, 1897, this parish was transferred to the new Grimsby Poor Law Union.

Year	Inhabitants
1801	99
1821	125
1831	158
1851	179
1871	180
1881	165
1891	172
1901	146
1911	144
1921	134
1931	145

• A National School was built here in 1845.
   
• For more on researching school records, see our Schools Research page.