Data from the 'Collectio Rerum Ecclesiasticarum' from the year 1842.

ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.

Data from the 'Collectio Rerum Ecclesiasticarum' from the year 1842.

The place: WOLD NEWTON.     Church dedication: PATRON SAINT NOT KNOWN.     Church type: Discharged Vicarage.

Area, 3,420 acres. Dickering wapentake. Population, 252 *2; Church-room, sufficient *3; Net value, £113. -The town of Newton contained fourteen oxgangs of land, whereof the Church is endowed with two.

And the Prior of Bridlington held one carucate in Frankalmoigne, of the fee of Gant.

And Walter de Rochford held eight carucates and six oxgangs of the heirs of Percy, and they of Gant, for one knight's fee.

And Robert, son of Jordan, held two carucates of St. Hilda.

This was formerly a Chapel dependant upon Hunmanby, and given therewith by Walter de Gant to the Abbey of Bardney, to which it was appropriated, and a Vicarage ordained therein in 1269. The presentation passed to the Hutchinsons ; and in 1742, to the Langleys.

Patron and impropriator, the Hon. Marmaduke Langley.

The Vicarage is valued in Pope Nicholas's taxation at £6. 13s. 4d.; in the King's books at £6. 19s. 8d.; and in the Parliamentary Survey, vol. xvii. page 415, it is stated : " A Chapel. The Vicarage is valued at £30. The parsonage belongeth to Mr. Hutchinson, worth yearly £37."

An Inclosure Act was passed 12th Geo. III.

The glebe house was returned in 1818 as fit for residence, but in 1834, the return was " glebe house unfit for residence."

No return as to Register Books. There is no burial-ground to this parish.

Parochial Charities. -No return.

Post town: Kilham.

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References:
Torre's MS. page 930. Abp. Sharp's MS. vol. ii. page 224. Bawdwen's Domesday Book (vide Nawetun, in the Index). Burton's Monast. page 236.

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Notes:
*1 Or Newton Rochford.

*2 Viz. Forder 48, and Wold Newton 177. In 1834, the Population was returned at 140.

*3 According to the return in 1834. In 1818, returned at 100.