Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for NEWSELLS

NEWSELLS, a hamlet in Barkway parish, Herts; 3¼ miles S E of Royston. It was known at Domesday as Neusala; was held by Eudo Dapifer; passed to the Scaleses and the Chesters, Lords Selsey; and belongs now chiefly to the Hon. Mrs. V. Harcourt. Pop., 155.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a hamlet"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Barkway CP/AP       Hertfordshire AncC
Place names: NEUSALA     |     NEWSELLS
Place: Newsells

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