34-515: The Wold Cottage meteorite (also called the Wold Newton meteorite ) fell near Wold Cottage farm in 1795, a few miles away from the village of Wold Newton in Yorkshire , England. The stone fell at around 3 o'clock, on 13 December 1795, landing within a few yards of ploughman John Shipley. It created a crater approximately 1 yard (0.91 m) across, and embedded itself in the underlying chalk rock to
68-462: A box describing themselves as Scottish or Irish, an option not available for English respondents. With an absence of an English tick-box, the only other tickbox available was "white-British", "Irish", or "other". However, if 'English' was written in under the "any other white background" it was not clear whether it would be counted as an ethnic group in same the way as the Welsh. Following criticism, English
102-493: A box describing themselves as Scottish or Irish, an option not available for Welsh respondents. Prior to the census, Plaid Cymru backed a petition calling for the inclusion of a Welsh tickbox and for the National Assembly for Wales to have primary law-making powers and its own National Statistics Office. With an absence of a Welsh tickbox, the only other tickbox available was "white-British", "Irish", or "other". For
136-449: A depth of 7 inches (180 mm), passing through 12 inches (300 mm) of topsoil. The fall was observed by several people, who described a dark body passing through the air. As discovered at its landing point, the stone was warm and smoking; several people reported sounds of explosions as it fell. The owner of the land was Major Edward Topham , a well-known public figure, an ex-soldier, playwright and newspaper proprietor; he publicised
170-608: A ground off Laking Lane and field a first and second team. The children's author Christina Butler lived for many years in the western section of Wold Newton Hall. Between 1988 and 2005 she wrote thirteen books, including Stanley in the Dark and Archie the Ugly Dinosaur . To the south of the village, close to the Gypsy Race, stands a neolithic round barrow . It was excavated in 1894 by John Robert Mortimer . His team discovered that
204-445: A malleable part. The earthy part analysed as containing silicon, magnesium, iron, and a small amount of nickel, of which some parts of the iron and nickel were in the elemental state; the earthy substance was similar to kaolin (weathered feldspar ), but relatively tough. The malleable parts also contained iron and nickel, the majority iron. A form of iron pyrites (iron sulphur compound) was also reported present. Modern science records
238-604: Is located within the Great Wold Valley . The course of the Gypsey Race , a winterbourne chalk stream, passes through the south of the village. The village of Fordon is also part of the civil parish of Wold Newton. According to the 2011 UK census , Wold Newton parish had a population of 337, an increase on the 2001 UK census figure of 291. The parish church of All Saints is a Grade II* listed building . Eight additional Grade II listed buildings include Wold Newton Hall,
272-420: The foot-and-mouth crisis , which led to extra precautions being adopted by the field staff, and suggestions that the census may have to be postponed. However, it was reported that the disease outbreak did not affect the effectiveness of the collection process. The census was estimated to cost £259m over its 13-year cycle from the start of planning in 1993 to the delivery of final results in 2006. Printing of
306-476: The 'other' heading. 26 per cent did not specify an ethnicity, but of the remainder 23 per cent wrote Filipino , 21 per cent Japanese , 11 per cent Vietnamese , 11 per cent Arab , 6 per cent Middle Eastern and 4 per cent North African . Controversy surrounding the classification of ethnic groups began as early as 2000, when it was revealed that respondents in Scotland and Northern Ireland would be able to check
340-735: The 2001 census was organised by the three statistical agencies, ONS, GROS, and NISRA, and coordinated at the national level by the Office for National Statistics. The Orders in Council to conduct the census, specifying the people and information to be included in the census, were made under the authority of the Census Act 1920 in Great Britain, and the Census Act (Northern Ireland) 1969 in Northern Ireland. In England and Wales these regulations were made by
374-461: The 2019 detective novel Sherlock Holmes & The Christmas Demon by British author James Lovegrove . Wold Newton, East Riding of Yorkshire Wold Newton is a small Yorkshire Wolds village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire , England. It is situated approximately 9 miles (14 km) south of Scarborough and 9 miles (14 km) north-west of Bridlington . Wold Newton
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#1733084696721408-469: The 30 million census forms was subcontracted to Polestar Group, and processing of the returned census forms was subcontracted to Lockheed Martin in a contract worth £54m. The forms were initially scanned into digital format, then read with OMR and OCR , with manual entry where the automatic process could not read the forms. The forms were then pulped and recycled, and the digital copies printed onto microfilm for storage and release after 100 years. Once
442-548: The Census Coverage Survey (sample size 320,000 households), resulting in a single set of population estimates. Although the 1851 census had included a question about religion on a separate response sheet, whose completion was not compulsory, the 2001 census was the first in Great Britain to ask about the religion of respondents on the main census form. An amendment to the 1920 Census Act (the Census (Amendment) Act 2000 )
476-570: The Census Order 2000 (SI 744/2000), in Scotland by the Census (Scotland) Order 2000 (SSI 68/2000), and in Northern Ireland by the Census Order (Northern Ireland) 2000 (SRNI 168/2000). The census was administered through self-completion forms, in most cases delivered by enumerators to households and communal establishments in the three weeks before census night on 29 April. For the first time return by post
510-735: The UK census relies on self-completion, the composition of the other ethnic group category is not fixed. Analysis by the Office for National Statistics of the 220,000 people in England and Wales who ticked the other ethnic group box in the 2001 census reveals that 53 per cent were born in the Far East , 10 per cent in the UK, 10 per cent in the Middle East , and 7 per cent in Africa . People could write in an ethnic group under
544-467: The adjacent Butt Lane. They are now Scheduled Ancient Monuments. In 2014 the metal detectorist David Blakely discovered a pottery container holding 1857 copper coins dating from the early 4th century AD. The container and coins were acquired by the Yorkshire Museum in 2016 and went on public display in 2017. Wold Newton is an Anglian name denoting a new farmstead. The land around Warrington
578-515: The basis for a literary premise commonly referred to as the Wold Newton family . The film Robinson in Ruins would also refer to the event, with the main character, Robinson, seeing it showing meteorites always fall at the time of significant events, in this case the 1795 amendment to the Settlement Act which allowed capitalism to develop faster in England. The meteorite plays quite a central role in
612-608: The body of science fiction literature known as the Wold Newton family by American author Philip José Farmer . From the mediaeval era until the 19th century, Wold Newton was part of Dickering Wapentake . Between 1894 and 1974, Wold Newton was a part of the Bridlington Rural District , in the East Riding of Yorkshire. Between 1974 and 1996, it was part of the Borough of North Wolds (later Borough of East Yorkshire ), in
646-461: The county of Humberside . Following the 1974 reforms to local government, the parish formed the northernmost tip of the new county of Humberside. The southern tip comprised the village of Wold Newton, Lincolnshire in Lincolnshire. Since 1996 Wold Newton is covered by the unitary East Riding of Yorkshire Council . United Kingdom Census 2001 A nationwide census , known as Census 2001 ,
680-499: The data were returned to the statistics agencies it underwent further processing to ensure consistency and to impute missing values. The overall response rate for the census, that is the proportion of the population who were included on a census form, was estimated to be 94% in England and Wales, 96.1% in Scotland and 95.2% in Northern Ireland. This was due to a number of factors: households with no response, households excluding residents from their returns, and addresses not included in
714-461: The enumeration. In Manchester for example 25,000 people from 14,000 addresses were not enumerated because the address database was two years out of date. The Local Authority with the lowest response was Kensington and Chelsea with 64%. Hackney had the next lowest response at 72%. Out of all local authorities, the ten lowest response rates were all in London. The results still represent 100 per cent of
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#1733084696721748-527: The find and exhibited the meteorite publicly at Piccadilly in London. The stone initially weighed 56 pounds (25 kg). James Sowerby , a naturalist , acquired the meteorite in 1804. The meteorite was later acquired by the British Museum in 1835. The meteorite can nowadays be seen in the Natural History Museum in London. Early analyses recorded two parts of the stone, an earthy part, and
782-493: The first time in a UK census, those wishing to describe their ethnicity as Cornish were given their own code number (06) on the 2001 UK census form, alongside those for people wishing to describe themselves as English, Welsh , Irish or Scottish. About 34,000 people in Cornwall and 3,500 people in the rest of the UK wrote on their census forms in 2001 that they considered their ethnic group to be Cornish. This represented nearly 7% of
816-683: The former Wesleyan Chapel (now Wold Newton Community Centre), the Old Vicarage, the Anvil Arms Public House, and the Red telephone box on Wold Newton Green. Approximately two thirds of the village falls within the Wold Newton Conservation area . Wold Newton has a small, fully automated telephone exchange. Rather confusingly, this is referred to as the "Thwing Exchange". ( Thwing is a neighbouring village). Wold Newton Cricket Club have
850-557: The meteorite as a L6 ordinary chondrite . The Wold Cottage meteorite was the largest meteorite observed to fall in Britain, and is the second-largest recorded in Europe (after the Ensisheim meteorite ). The meteorite and evidence given about its fall contributed to the debate concerning whether extraterrestrial matter existed or not, and towards the early scientific study of meteorites. A monument
884-572: The monument had initially composed a large timber structure onto which several bodies had been laid along with pottery and flints. The Great Wold Valley was a site of considerable neolithic activity, also containing the barrows of Duggleby Howe and Willy Howe as well as the Rudston Monolith . The barrow has been a Scheduled Ancient Monument since 1962. Two bowl barrows are located to the west of Wold Newton Green. Both were used during mediaeval times as archery target butts, lending their name to
918-469: The population, however, because some individuals not completing their forms were instead identified by census enumerators, and through the use of cross-matching with a follow-up survey. The results from the 2001 census were produced using a methodology known as the One Number Census. This was an attempt to adjust the census counts and impute answers to allow for estimated under-enumeration measured by
952-405: The question. The census ethnic groups included White ( White British , White Irish , Other White ), Mixed ( White and Black Caribbean , White and Black African , White and Asian , Other Mixed ), Asian or Asian British ( Indian , Pakistani , Bangladeshi , Other Asian ), Black or Black British ( Black Caribbean , African , Other Black ) and Chinese or Other Ethnic Group . Since
986-749: Was conducted in the United Kingdom on Sunday, 29 April 2001. This was the 20th UK census and recorded a resident population of 58,789,194. The 2001 UK census was organised by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) in England and Wales , the General Register Office for Scotland (GROS) and the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA). Detailed results by region, council area, ward and output area are available from their respective websites. Similar to previous UK censuses,
1020-406: Was enclosed in 1776. The current channel of the Gypsy Race was defined at this time. On 13 December 1795 a meteorite crashed on the outskirts of the village, landing within metres of ploughman John Shipley. As a monument to this event, there is a brick column bearing the inscription below. The meteorite is now housed in the Natural History Museum in London. The event inspired the development of
1054-411: Was erected on the location of the stone's impact, by Major Topham, on whose property the stone had fallen. The structure was built of brick 4 ft (1.2 m) square and 25 ft (7.6 m) high, with a plaque on one face. The event was used by the science fiction writer Philip José Farmer in his "biographies" of fictional characters ( Tarzan Alive and Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life ) as
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1088-459: Was included as a tick-box option in the 2011 census. It is sometimes claimed that the 2001 census revealed that two-thirds of the population of Wales described themselves as of Welsh nationality . In fact, the 2001 census did not collect any information on nationality. Controversy surrounding the classification of ethnic group began as early as 2000, when it was revealed that respondents in Scotland and Northern Ireland would be able to check
1122-585: Was passed by Parliament to allow the question to be asked, and to allow the response to this question to be optional. The inclusion of the question enabled the Jedi census phenomenon to take place in the United Kingdom. In England and Wales 390,127 people stated their religion as Jedi , as did 14,052 people in Scotland. The percentages of religious affiliations were: 15% declared themselves of no religion (including Jedi at 0.7%, more than those who declared themselves as Sikh, Jewish or Buddhist) and 8% did not respond to
1156-458: Was used as the main collection method, with enumerators following up in person where the forms were not returned. The postal response rate was 88% in England and Wales, 91% in Scotland, and 92% in Northern Ireland. A total of 81,000 field staff were employed across the UK (70,000 in England and Wales, 8,000 in Scotland and 3,000 in Northern Ireland). The census was conducted at the height of
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