9-809: West Newton is the name of various locations: England [ edit ] West Newton, East Riding of Yorkshire West Newton, Norfolk West Newton, Somerset , in the Hundred of North Petherton United States [ edit ] West Newton, Indiana West Newton, Massachusetts West Newton (MBTA station) West Newton, Minnesota , ghost town West Newton, Wabasha County, Minnesota , unincorporated community West Newton, Ohio West Newton, Pennsylvania West Newton Township, Nicollet County, Minnesota See also [ edit ] Westnewton (disambiguation) All pages with titles containing West Newton [REDACTED] Topics referred to by
18-674: A borehole that extended over 6,562 feet (2,000 m). If the assessment is correct, it would be the biggest onshore gas and oilfield in the United Kingdom. Previously this was the Saltfleetby field in Lincolnshire discovered in 1973 with a capacity of 73,000,000,000 cubic metres (2.6 × 10 cu ft) of gas. Saltfleetby Saltfleetby is a village and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire , England on
27-475: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages West Newton, East Riding of Yorkshire West Newton is a hamlet in the East Riding of Yorkshire , England. It is situated approximately 9 miles (14 km) north-east of Hull city centre and 6 miles (9.7 km) south of Hornsea . In 1935, both the townships of Marton and West Newton were merged into
36-478: The civil parish of Burton Constable . In 1870–72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described West Newton like this: NEWTON (West), a township, with a village, in Aldbrough parish, E. R. Yorkshire; miles N E of Hull. Acres, 778. Real property, £3, 218. Pop., 220. Houses, 30. An hospital was founded here, prior to 1179, by William Earl of Albemarle. The area around West Newton has been
45-614: The Great Eau river and the dunes, a large number of pillboxes and a Home Guard shelter in the field adjacent to The Prussian Queen. A section of the parish seashore is salt marsh between Saltfleetby and the North Sea , and is part of the Saltfleetby-Theddlethorpe Dunes National Nature Reserve , which has sea dunes and both saltwater and freshwater marshes. The reserve is one of only around 60 places in
54-548: The church that gave it its name. The hamlet of Three Bridges is south of Saltfleetby St Peter. Saltfleetby contains a wooden village hall, fishing lakes with a campsite and shop, and the Prussian Queen public house . Saltfleetby Gas Field , north of North End Lane, is part of the neighbouring village of South Cockerington . The Second World War defences constructed in and around Saltfleetby have been documented by William Foot. They included extensive minefields between
63-417: The coast of the North Sea , approximately 7 miles (11 km) east from Louth and 10 miles (16 km) north from Mablethorpe . The parish had a population of 599 in the 2001 Census , decreasing to 568 at the 2011 Census. A local name for the village is Soloby. Until 1999 Saltfleetby comprised three parishes: Saltfleetby St Peter, Saltfleetby All Saints and Saltfleetby St Clement, each one centred on
72-429: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=West_Newton&oldid=1155064810 " Category : Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
81-423: The site of test drilling for gas and oil. In 2014, people complained that noxious fumes were being emitted from a site near to the village and the smell was making them sick. In June 2019, the company testing for gas announced that preliminary data from the borehole suggested that there was an accessible resource of 189,000,000,000 cubic metres (6.7 × 10 cu ft) of gas, or 31 million barrels of oil from
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