Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for NEWTON

NEWTON, a chapelry in Pickering parish, N. R. Yorkshire; on the York and Whitby railway at Newton-I ale, and at Levisham r. station, 4¼ miles N by E of Pickering. Post-town, Pickering. Acres, 2, 401. Real property, £1, 643. Pop., 243. Houses, 51. The manor belongs to the Rev. R. Hill. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of York. Value, £250. Patron, the Archbishop of York. There are chapels for Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists, and a slightly endowed parochial school.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Newton Ch/CP       Pickering AP/CP       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Newton

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