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Wold Newton, Yorkshire, England. Geographical and Historical information from 1835.

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WOLD NEWTON:
Geographical and Historical information from the year 1835.

"WOLD NEWTON, a parish in the wapentake of DICKERING, East riding of the county of YORK, 115 miles N.E. from Great Driffield, containing, with tne chapelry of Fordon, 225 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of the East riding, and diocese of York, rated in the king's books at £6. 19. 9., and in the patronage of the Hon. D. Langley. This was anciently a chapelry within the parisn. of Hunmanby, and is remarkable for one of those clear. and copious springs, called the Gipsey springs, which issues out of the ground with great force, and is thought to be one of the Wold streams emerging from its subterraneous channel."

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