NEWPORT-WALLINGFEN, a township in the
parish of EASTRINGTON, wapentake of HOWDENSHIRE,
East riding of the county of YORK, 6 miles (W. by S.)
from South Cave, containing 339 inhabitants. There
is a place of worship, erected in'1814, for Wesleyan
Methodists, in connexion with which is a large Sunday
school. About half a century ago, this was an uncultivated
morass, called Walling Fen; but a bed of clay, of
very superior quality, having been discovered, which is
dug to the depth of thirty-feet from the surface, it became
noted for the manufacture of bricks, tiles, and
coarse earthenware, to a very great extent, whereby the
-value of .the land was amazingly increased, and a thriving
village sprang up. The Market-Weighton canal
is in the vicinity.