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[1] and 6 miles (9.7 km) south of Hornsea. In 1935, both the townships of Marton and West Newton were merged into the civil parish of Burton Constable.[2]
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OS grid reference | TA199377 |
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Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | HULL |
Postcode district | HU11 |
Dialling code | 01964 |
Police | Humberside |
Fire | Humberside |
Ambulance | Yorkshire |
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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.[3]
The area around West Newton has been 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.[4] 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 (6.7×1012 cu ft) of gas, or 31 million barrels of oil from a borehole that extended over 6,562 feet (2,000 m).[5]
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 (2.6×1012 cu ft) of gas.[6]
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