NEWBALD, a parish within the liberty of ST-PETER-of-YORK,
though locally in the Hunsley-Beacon
division of the wapentake of HARTHILL, East riding of
the county of YORK, containing 722 inhabitants, of
which number, 543 are in the township of North Newbald,
4 miles (S. E.), and 179 in that of South Newbald,
4 miles (S.E. by S.), from Market-Weighton. The living
is a discharged vicarage, in the peculiar jurisdiction and
patronage of the Prebendary of North Newbald in the
Cathedral Church of York, rated in the king's books
at & 4, endowed with £200 private benefaction, £400
royal bounty, and £600 parliamentary grant. The
church, dedicated to St. Nicholas, is a cruciform structure,
principally in the Norman style, with a tower rising
from the intersection, and several enriched doors and
arches; the font is early English, curiously formed and
ornamented. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan
Methodists. Six poor children are educated for a small
sum paid from the poor's estate.