NEW FOREST is a township, containing the hamlets of Helwith, Hollgate, Rexwith and Casey Green. George Thomas Gilpin-Brown esq. D.L., J.P. of Sedbury Park, is lord of the manor and principal landowner. Divine service is conducted in a room here by the vicar of the parish once monthly. The area is 3,003 acres, principally barren moorland; rateable value, £838; the population in 1911 was 39.