North Newbald, Yorkshire, England. Geographical and Historical information from 1835.

NORTH NEWBALD:
Geographical and Historical information from the year 1835.

"NORTH NEWBALD, a parish within the liberty of ST-PETER-of-YORK, though locally in the Hunsley-Beacon division of the wapentake of HARTHILL, East riding of the county of YORK, containing 722 inhabitants, of which number, 543 are in the township of North Newbald, 4 miles S.E., and 179 in that of South Newbald, 4 miles S.S.E., from Market-Weighton. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the peculiar jurisdiction and patronage of the Prebendary of North Newbald in the Cathedral Church of York, rated in the king's books at & 4, endowed with £200 private benefaction, £400 royal bounty, and £600 parliamentary grant. The church, dedicated to St. Nicholas, is a cruciform structure, principally in the Norman style, with a tower rising from the intersection, and several enriched doors and arches; the font is early English, curiously formed and ornamented. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. Six poor children are educated for a small sum paid from the poor's estate."

[Transcribed by Mel Lockie © from
Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1835]